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One hundred and twenty years ago, Tag Twain left Huckleberry Finn's father dead in an area congested with oddities: a solid wood leg, women's underclothing, two dark-colored cloth masks, and more. Now, in a resonant and impressive new novel, Jon Clinch tells the storyline of how the brutal and explosive Finn found his result in an area jammed with the telltale artifacts of his bizarre and inexplicable life. On the way, Clinch presents the listener to a mesmerizing solid of characters: Finn's own fearsome father, known only as the Judge; Finn's sibling, the sickly, sycophantic Will; the hermit Bliss, a blind moonshiner; the strong and quick-witted Mary, a previous slave who becomes Finn's mistress; and, of course, young Huck himself. Finn is a novel about race, the sin of slavery, and the burdens of paternity. Written in a method both precise and thunderous, understated and violently elemental, it attracts from our literary history to make something new. Finn is a hypnotic, completely original, distinctive American tale.