1991.

There are years that become history. And there are years that refuse to leave.

1991 is the latter.

It sits at a strange hinge in the American story, after one era had supposedly ended, before anyone understood what was coming next. The Cold War was collapsing. The culture wars were accelerating. Race, language, censorship and identity were moving toward the center of public life.

And there was no internet to mediate any of it. No smartphones. No social media. You could still disappear into a car, cross a state line and become unreachable.

That is the America Axel Emerson and Moses Morton drive into in Huckleberry Jim

The novel takes place thirty-five years ago. The distance is considerably shorter than it looks.

Publishers Weekly BookLife Editor’s Pick:
“Adam Nelson’s incisive, provocative, and robustly American debut... honors the fathoms-deep American divisions that Twain marked and urges us to look closer rather than away.”

Read the full Review:
https://booklife.com/project/huckleberry-jim-108347

Huckleberry Jim publishes October 6 during Banned Books Week with an Audiobook from Blackstone Publishing

Official launch October 10 at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri.

Available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and independent bookstores nationwide.

First Edition autographed copies available at https://www.huckleberryjimbook.com

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