Hillary Jordan's novels delve into profound social issues and the complexities of human nature. Her acclaimed debut, recognized as a significant work of social justice, explores deep-seated societal problems with keen psychological insight. Jordan masterfully weaves themes of justice and resilience, offering readers compelling and thought-provoking narratives.
This prize-winning novel is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.
Hannah Payne is a RED. Her crime: MURDER. And her victim, says the state of Texas, was her unborn child.
Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity...
Mississippi, 1946: Laura McAllan ist ihrem Ehemann zuliebe aufs Land gezogen, wo er als Farmer einer Baumwollplantage Fuß fassen will. Doch ihr ist die Umgebung fremd, und auf Mudbound gibt es weder fließendes Wasser noch Strom. Unterstützung erhalten sie durch die Jacksons, ihre afroamerikanischen Pächter. Die aufgeweckte Florence Jackson hilft Laura, wo sie nur kann. Aber auch wenn der Alltag sie an ihre Grenzen treibt und sie für gewöhnlich nicht auf den Mund gefallen ist, würde sie es nicht wagen, Missstände anzumahnen. In diese angespannte Situation geraten zwei Kriegsheimkehrer: Florences Sohn Ronsel und Lauras Schwager Jamie. Deren Freundschaft wird zu einer Herausforderung für beide Familien, und so lassen Missgunst und Ausgrenzung die Stimmung bald kippen ...
When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Henry's love of rural life is not shared by Laura, who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. When it rains, the waters rise up and swallow the bridge to town, stranding the family in a sea of mud. As the Second World War shudders to an end, two young men return from Europe to help work the farm. Jamie McAllan is everything his older brother Henry is not and is 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 farm, comes home from war with the shine of a hero, only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen. These two unlikely friends become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.