by Percival Everett
SPOILERS AHEAD. I was really disappointed with this, after how great ERASURE was. I couldn’t believe he dropped the parenthood bomb. Can writers really not think of any better way to give their narrative a “point” than to do a great big parenthood reveal? So boring! Plus, the beauty of the original HUCKLEBERRY FINN was how Huck came to see Jim as human through his own experience and moral reasoning. Not because he found out that Jim was his father! That changes his moral epiphany altogether. It becomes all about genetics. Parenthood. Race.
It was also tiresome how there was not single good white character in the whole book, living or dead.
James wonders towards the end whether white people are fighting to free the slaves merely out of “guilt.” What better reason would there be? What more or less does he want?
Tytania 