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Mudbound : A Novel

In this award winning portrait of two families caught up in the blind hatred of a small Southern town, prejudice takes many forms--some subtle, some ruthless. Mudbound is the saga of the McAllan family, who struggle to survive on a remote ramshackle farm, and the Jacksons, their black sharecroppers. When two sons return from World War II to work the land, the unlikely friendship between these brothers-in-arms-one white, one black-arouses the passions of their neighbors. As the men and women of each family tell their version of events we are drawn into their lives. Striving for love and honor in a brutal time and place, they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale and find redemption where they least expect it.

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  • "In this award winning portrait of two families caught up in the blind hatred of a small Southern town, prejudice takes many forms--some subtle, some ruthless. Mudbound is the saga of the McAllan family, who struggle to survive on a remote ramshackle farm, and the Jacksons, their black sharecroppers. When two sons return from World War II to work the land, the unlikely friendship between these brothers-in-arms-one white, one black-arouses the passions of their neighbors. As the men and women of each family tell their version of events we are drawn into their lives. Striving for love and honor in a brutal time and place, they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale and find redemption where they least expect it."@en
  • "In 1946, city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when two young men return from the war to work the land, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm."@en
  • ""It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when 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 the memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm, has come home a hero, but is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South."--Publisher description."
  • "Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946. In a frightening and foreign place, Laura struggles to raise their two children in an isolated shack watched over by her hateful, racist father-in law. When it rains, the waters rise and swallow the bridge to town, stranding the family in a sea of mud. As the Second World War ends, two young men return home to help work the farm. Jamie McAllan, unlike his older brother, is charming and sensitive to Laura's plight. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, returns home a war hero, only to face more personal - and dangerous - battles against the bigotry of his own countrymen."
  • "In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta."
  • "In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta."@en
  • "Quand elle arrive dans la ferme que vient d'acquérir son mari, Henry, Laura McAllan comprend qu'elle n'y sera jamais heureuse. L'endroit est sinistre, dépourvu de tout confort et son beau-père, fier membre du Ku Klux Klan, y règne en maître. Lorsque Jamie, le jeune frère d'Henry, aussi sensible que son aîné est renfermé, rentre du front, Laura se découvre des sentiments pour lui."
  • "Takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat."@en
  • ""As the McAllans are being tested in every way, two celebrated soldiers of World War II return home to help work the farm. Jamie McAllan is everything his older brother Henry is not: charming, handsome, and sensitive to Laura's plight, but also haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, comes home from fighting the Nazis with the shine of a war hero, only to face far more personal - and dangerous - battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen. It is the unlikely friendship of these two brothers-in-arms, and the passions they arouse in others, that drive this debut novel. Mudbound reveals how everyone becomes a player in a tragedy on the grandest scale, even as they strive for love and honor."--Jacket."@en
  • "City-bred Laura, having turned 30, gives up all hope of ever getting married, until Henry McAllan enters her life. After a brief courtship they marry & start building a life together. They are blessed with two children & live a comfortable life, but Henry dreams of land & the family farm that was lost by his father."
  • "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 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.""@en

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  • "General fiction"@en
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  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Historical fiction"
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