Fat Ham Summary
James Ijames

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Fat Ham Overview

Fat Ham by James Ijames loosely follows the plot of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. With a humorous tone and irreverent attitude to its source material, it tells the story of Juicy, a young Black gay man from North Carolina, struggling to escape his family's history of violence after his uncle Rev arranges the murder of his father Pap and marries his mother Tedra. It deals with themes of toxic masculinity and cyclical violence.