Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of 18 novels, including I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Water Cure, Wounded, Erasure, and Glyph.
“Everett’s genius in James is that he keeps Twain’s essential plot along with Huck’s fundamental innocence and decency, but he adds his own nuances along the way.”
“The careful reader, the one who assumes nothing as s/he reads, will be the most satisfied. Assumption is a well-written mystery with an unexpected, rare, and unique ending.”
