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Jordan, Hillary, 1963-
Subjects
Farm life -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
Veterans, Black -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Mississippi -- Fiction.
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Jordan, Hillary, 1963-
Farm life -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
Veterans, Black -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Mississippi -- Fiction.
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Mudbound
: a
novel
/ by Hillary Jordan.
by
Jordan, Hillary, 1963-
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2008.
Call #:
FICTION JOR
Subjects
Farm life -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
Veterans, Black -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Mississippi -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781443454483 (2008 Harper Perennial movie tie-in trade pbk.)
9781565125698
Description:
328 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Laura does not share Henry's love of rural life, and she struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack with no indoor plumbing or electricity, all the while under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. When it rains, the waters rise up and swallow the bridge to town, stranding the family in a sea of mud. As the McAllans are being tested in every way, two celebrated soldiers of World War II return home to help work the farm. Jamie McAllan is everything his older brother Henry is not: charming, handsome, and sensitive to Laura's plight, but also haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, comes home from fighting the Nazis with the shine of a war hero, only to face far more personal—and dangerous—battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen. It is the unlikely friendship of these two brothers-in-arms, and the passions they arouse in others, that drive this powerful debut
novel
.
Mudbound
reveals how everyone becomes a player in a tragedy on the grandest scale, even as they strive for love and honor. Jordan's indelible portrayal of two families caught up in the blind hatred of a small Southern town earned the prestigious Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded biennially to a first literary
novel
that addresses issues of social injustice."--Inside jacket.
Awards:
Winner of the Bellwether Prize for fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
First
novel
.
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