false 2138727 18 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&#8212;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&#8212;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.<br> <br> 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 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." 2144215 4 3 2008 Mudbound total:1967|5:597|4:927|3:377|2:58|1:8| 1967 7948 3447 695 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 4 5 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 14:52:25 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 15:00:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 5 8 false Thu Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 19:11:59 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 19:15:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 3 2 true Mon Sep 15 22:39:21 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 22:39:38 -0700 2008
Jordan uses multiple narrators to offer varying perspectives on the happenings of the story. Laura is on the fast track to old maid-hood after her 30th birthday when she is introduced to Henry. He is smitten, and she likes ...more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 0 3 false Fri Mar 14 07:31:34 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 07:39:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 5 4 false Mon Apr 21 09:56:29 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 10:03:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 5 2 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 15:13:46 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 15:26:47 -0700 2008
At any given moment in time, I'm usually reading a non-fiction book (or two or three). It's my thing. I love reading about new perspectives on true-life occurances. If I were stranded on a deserted island and I had to choose whether to bring a fiction...more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 3 2 false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 25 22:11:12 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 29 22:34:06 -0700 2009
I liked this line, from the midwife "When I met Laura McAllan she was out of her head with mama worry. When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say an...more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 3 2 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 24 13:18:09 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 13:21:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 4 1 false Fri Dec 21 11:29:11 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 11:29:24 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 3 1 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 17:46:37 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 07:19:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 4 1 false Fri Jun 13 15:35:26 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 15:35:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 0 0 false Wed Oct 07 16:20:51 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 16:20:51 -0700 2009 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan was an exquisite piece of modern Southern literature. In her debut novel, Jordan crafted a story of family, race and farm life set in 1940 s Mississippi. Heart-wrenching, Mudbound will leave any reader stunned by the tragedy of the American South from not too long ago.[re...more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 0 0 false Wed Sep 30 12:42:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:42:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 0 0 false Mon Mar 30 09:43:40 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 11:28:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 3 1 false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 05:08:08 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 05:16:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2138727 156512569X 9781565125698 1794 632 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210904673m/2138727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:55:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:55:40 -0800 2009 Winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize (2006), which recognizes an unpublished manuscript promoting social responsibility, Jordan's debut novel exposes the racism and sexism of the Jim Crow South. Most critics embraced this topic, even while recognizing its heavy-handedness; the Washington ...

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The story revolves around a family of famers in...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4607387