Mudbound : a novel

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: &copy;2008

Jordan, Hillary 1963- (Author).

Summary: 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.