James by Percival Everett
Everett tells his enthralling fiction from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn's enslaved Jim's point of view--but you don't need to have read the Twain canon to appreciate and enjoy this twist on one of the Great American Novels. In it, the acclaimed Everett lays bare the cruel soul of the United States in the form of an enveloping adventure, while also treating readers to his trademark dark humor--and thereby cementing himself as one of the 21st century's best writers.