Mudbound : a novel / by Hillary Jordan.
By: Jordan, Hillary.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill, 2008Edition: 1st ed.Description: 328 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781565125698 (hardback); 156512569X.Subject(s): Farm life -- Mississippi -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction | African-American veterans -- Fiction | Race relations -- Mississippi -- Fiction | Farm life -- Mississippi -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.6 | [Fic] Summary: The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade in arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local shar e croppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.
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The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade in arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local shar e croppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.
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