James

Maybe takes over from The Aeneid as the best fan fic? I'm probably biased by temporal vicinity, but on top of being a tight, well-written, smart and funny book, and it does a great job of reconceptualizing and recontextualizing the source material. Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim reveals expected racist tensions, hypocrisies and blindspots, that James fills and explores in a way that a few sentences of reviews will completely fail to articulate. It is stronger for the fact that all things considered, Huclkeberry Finn holds up surprisingly well. And then on top of all that it is in and of itself a solid and compelling story. I think Percival Everett is one of my favorite living novelists.