ONE MONTH AWAY.

ONE MONTH AWAY.
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A battered Chrysler Imperial. Two actors. One book America has never managed to finish arguing about.

Huckleberry Jim begins with a strange job: take a two-man Huckleberry Finn into American schools and make Twain live for a room full of kids.

Then the doors begin to close.

What begins as a theatrical road trip becomes something sharper and far more combustible—a collision between two men, a famous book, and the country waiting outside the auditorium doors.

It’s about bad motels and worse gigs. Rehearsals under broken lights. Children who understand more than the adults protecting them. The peculiar intimacy of two people trapped together on the road. The distance between playing a part and living it. And what happens when a book written in 1884 is carried into American schools in 1991—and finds the argument waiting for it.
Thirty days until the curtain goes up.

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. For readers of Percival Everett’s James and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout.”

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

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

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org and fine bookstores everywhere. First Edition autographed copies available at HuckleberryJimBook.com⁠
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