Mudbound
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...
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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
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780099524687 (0099524686)
Publisher: Windmill Books
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
This was a hard novel to put down once I started it. I felt for both parties involved, those who physically owned the land and those whose bodies labored over the land. The year was and Henry, a new landowner had never been so proud. Henry had just bought his farm and moved his family to Mississippi...
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