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Coming from the no man's land of Illinois instead of North or South, Lidie represents the realist's take on slavery--in her heart she's against it, but she finds the abolitionists smug, intoxicated by their own abstract words.
Book -- The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton , by Jane Smiley;
Instead of love at first sight, Lidie's romance with cold, fussy Thomas is slow and confusing, and halfway through the book, just as she's prepared to investigate the possibility that they're in love, he's suddenly murdered.
Lidie equals Huck, and Lorna equals Jim--Lidie even has a mischievous young cousin who's a stand-in for Tom Sawyer--and the whole point of the book is to shine the harsh light of reality on Twain's irresponsible fantasy.
But Smiley blocks her path with various obstacles, until Lidie ends up broke and dying on the side of a road, and a slave-owning family takes her in.