The Forty-Dollar Room.

The cheapest room in Huckleberry costs forty dollars.
The real price is history.
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A motel sign says it has been “serving all Americans since 1968.” Axel sees an old sign. Moses sees the year the country finally decided a man who looked like him could sleep inside.
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That distinction is at the heart of the novel: history does not disappear when the law changes. It remains in who notices the date—and who has the luxury of not noticing it.

Same room. Same night. Same America.
Not the same country.

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.”
{Full Review} Publishers Weekly BookLife review https://booklife.com/my/project/huckleberry-jim-108347

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 Books, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop and fine bookstores everywhere.

First Edition autographed copies available at HuckleberryJimBook.com.

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