Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Tells the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

The story of two friends and their adventures on the Mississippi River.

The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran presents an impassioned tribute to the importance of fiction to democracy that blends memoir with close readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. "A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy...