Booklist Starred Review. [A] sophisticated, complex first novel. Stewart O'Nan Mudbound is a real page-turner — a tangle of history, tragedy, and romance powered by guilt, moral indignation, and a near chorus of unstoppable voices. Barbara Kingsolver Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm. Hillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudbound () and When She Woke (), as well as the digital short “Aftermirth.”. Mudbound won the Bellwether Prize, founded by Barbara Kingsolver to recognize socially conscious fiction, and a Alex Award from the American Library Association/5(K). Jordan grew up in Dallas, Texas, and Muskogee, Okla. She received a BA in English and political science from Wellesley College and spent 15 years working as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. "Mudbound" was published by Algonquin Books in March
About the Author. Hillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudbound () and When She Woke (), as well as the digital short "Aftermirth.". Mudbound won the Bellwether Prize, founded by Barbara Kingsolver to recognize socially conscious fiction, and a Alex Award from the American Library Association. In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is , 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. Summer$ReadingDiscussionQuestions$ Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan Mike$Wade$and$James$Goff,$History$ The Delta • JamesCobbhascalledtheMississippiDelta"The.
Fierce, unflinching and deeply human, Mudbound is told in riveting personal narratives by the individual members of the McAllan and Jackson families. As they strive for love and honor in a brutal time and place, they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. Mudbound won the Bellwether Prize for socially conscious fiction. Mudbound is a novel by author Hillary Jordan. It is set in the southern delta of Mississippi in the years immediately following World War II. Over the course of the story, the fates of two intertwined families are irreversibly changed by a tragedy provoked by virulent racism. The novel explores themes of love, family, loyalty, duty, and the uneasy relationship African Americans have had with the South in the years following emancipation. Hillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudbound () and When She Woke (), as well as the digital short “Aftermirth.”. Mudbound won the Bellwether Prize, founded by Barbara Kingsolver to recognize socially conscious fiction, and a Alex Award from the American Library Association.
0コメント