Premise: After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.

Hypothesis: Smiley wrote a polemical essay in 1996 labeling Huckleberry Finn as the best character ever existed.
Relation: contradiction