Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. 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. As Barbara Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, "Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still."
Hillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudbound (2008) and When She Woke (2011), as well as the digital short Aftermirth. Mudbound won the Bellwether Prize for Socially Conscious Fiction in 2006, and the American Library Association's Alex Award in 2009. It won the NAIBA Fiction Novel of the Year award in 2008 and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize in 2010. It was selected one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by Paste magazine. Mudbound has been translated into French, Italian, Serbian, Swedish, and Norwegian, and a film adaptation will be released in the fall of 2017. When She Woke was a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Prize and was long-listed for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It has been translated into complex characters in French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese.
Jordan graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in English and Columbia University with an MA in Creative Writing. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma, before settling in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781565126770 |
| ISBN 10 | 1565126777 |
| Title | Mudbound |
| Author | Hillary Jordan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Algonquin Books |
| Year published | 2009-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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