Mudbound

The International Bestseller Now a major motion picture from Netflix,directed by Dee Reesnominated in four categories for the Academy Awards. In Jordan’s prize-winning debutprejudice takes many formsboth subtle and brutal. It is 1946and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi Delta farmΓÇöa place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family’s strugglestwo young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllanLaura’s brother-in-lawis everything her husband is notΓÇöcharminghandsomeand haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jacksoneldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farmhas come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his countryhe 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 Barbara Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan\