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Original Title:	Mudbound
ISBN:	156512569X (ISBN13: 9781565125698)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.hillaryjordan.com
Characters:	Laura McAllan, Jamie McAllan, Ronsel Jackson
Setting:	Mississippi(United States)
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2009), NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2008), PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction for Fiction (2006)

Mudbound

Hillary Jordan

Hardcover | Pages: 328 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 60905 Users | 5941 Reviews

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Title	:	Mudbound
Author	:	Hillary Jordan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 328 pages
Published	:	March 4th 2008 by Algonquin Books (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. American. Southern

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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."

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I always find it odd to say I loved a book when the story told is unpleasant. Actually, unpleasant is not a strong enough word, horrific is probably more accurate. This story is about many things but I think the main focus is on bigotry and racism. It takes place just after WW II in rural Mississippi and is told by several POV's, all of them main players in what happens. I never summarize plots in my "reviews", just how a book made me feel and this one made me feel a lot. Highly recommend.

My vacation is over and with it a return to active reading. Last year I didnt pick up a book for the entire month of February and I attributed it to the winter blahs. Truthfully, it is because last year my team lost the Super Bowl; this year it is a much different story. It is amazing how much winning has helped my mood. Two years ago my favorite teams won the World Series and Super Bowl three months apart and I went on to read over 200 books. I doubt Ill approach that again until my kids are

This novel is so moving, so relatable, and so tragic that I cant imagine any reader being left untouched by its six narrators and the fierce, loving, and horrific story they share in the telling.I found this story so gripping that I could barely stand to put it down; so filled with potential tragedy and disaster that I reluctantly picked it up again. Yet, I was compelled to do so. There is no way in the world that I could close my eyes and heart to this story without suffering in my ignorance. I

A wonderful story, although very distressing, also, very true, as I grew up in the south in the 50's and 60's and I understand what was happening. This is a story of a friendship that was destroyed by out of control people. But I loved the way the story was written and how much you cared about all the characters. This book is being made into a Netflix movie to be shown in November, that is why I wanted to go ahead and read this book. I've had it on my Amazon Wish List for quite a while so glad I

Mudbound is a story set in the Mississippi delta country in 1946. It is about complex relations between a white family that owns the land and a black family that helps to farm the land. It is also about war and the Jim Crow conditions that existed in the South during that era.Hillary Jordan, in her debut novel, took on the daunting task of presenting the story through the eyes of six different narrators. That would seem to be difficult enough, but making it even more difficult is the fact that

Social justice (and literature) liteThis book and I hit it off at first. Its a quick, easy read and I enjoyed the first 2/3 or so. But looking back, I wouldnt recommend it to anyone.Mudbound is about two families living in the Mississippi Delta: one black and one white. Its 1946 and racial tensions are high: the black GIs returning from WW2 are no longer willing to put up with being second-class citizens, but the white population is equally unwilling to allow change. The book is written in the

I wrote this book so I can hardly be expected to be objective!