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Mudbound : a novel / by Hillary Jordan.
This captivating story set in the Mississippi Delta features city-bred Laura McAllan, a woman struggling to adjust to life on her husband’s isolated farm, her brother-in-law, Jamie, newly home from the Second World War, and Ronsel Jackson, son of the black sharecroppers who work the McAllan land and himself a war hero. When the two men refuse to live by Mississippi’s strict racial mores, tragedy ensues. Hillary Jordan has written a moving, powerful novel of forbidden love, betrayal and murder, capturing a dark period of the past.
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- ISBN: 9781443454483
- Physical Description: 324 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Harper Perennial trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2008
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| Awards Note: | Winner of the Bellwether Prize for fiction. |
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| Subject: | Farm life > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Fiction. Veterans, Black > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Mississippi > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. First novel. |
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