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The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

The novel retells “Huckleberry Finn” from the viewpoint of the escaped-slave character Jim. The event will be Nov. 8 at Los Medanos College.

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