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The Creative Writing Program Writers Reading Series brought Nancy Rawles, award-winning novelist and playwright for a reading from her novel, My Jim, in May of this year.

My Jim is the story of the family left behind by escaped-slave, Jim, when he travels down the Mississippi with Huck Finn. The novel was the Seattle Reads selection for 2009. 

Nancy Rawles is a resident of the Pacific Northwest and is the author of Love Like Gumbo and Crawfish Dreams.

 

My Jim

 

 

Related Links:

National Public Radio review of My Jim.

My Jim reading group toolbox.

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