Ce n'est pas la suite de "Bloomstone Manor", ce tome peut se lire indépendamment, mais on y retrouve le personnage de Lord Stone. Ce texte donne la primauté aux sensations, aux émotions, éprouvées par le jeune homme. C'est un beau récit sur le droit à la différence et sur la difficulté à être soi.

James is a gripping retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in which Jim is the main character. This time, the story is told by the runaway slave’s point of view, and Percival Everett, far from what Twain presupposed, gives Jim the depth of character that was erased in the first novel. With James, Everett gives a proud voice to one of the few Black characters in classic literature, underlining his complex personality and the painful life of a runaway slave in the southern states of Ame…