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Jon Clinch will read from Finn tomorrow, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, in the Howard Thurman Room, Marsh Chapel, Boston University, at 5:30 pm. In his first book, Jon Clinch transforms Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by tackling where Huck came from. In this take on the classic, Huck has a black mother, and his father is a human-flesh-roasting, floor-licking nutter. About the flesh-roasting, we're not kidding. Here's a paragraph from an excerpt available...

Surely you're familiar with the question "Who are the top five people you'd invite to a dinner party?" And Jesus and Mark Twain invariably end up on the list.