Mudbound / a novel by Hillary Jordan.

Jordan, Hillary, 1963- (author.).

Summary:

It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion. The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.

Record details

ISBN: 9781565126770
ISBN: 1565126777
Physical Description: 339 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes an interview with the author and a reading and discussion guide.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.1 12 131237.
Awards Note:	Bellwether Prize for fiction, 2006