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In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, 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. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not - charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he 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 Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, "Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still."
- Sales Rank: #62272 in Books
- Brand: Jordan, Hillary
- Published on: 2009-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .94" w x 5.56" l, .75 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 340 pages
Amazon.com Review
Jordan won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Mudbound, her first novel. The prize was founded by Barbara Kingsolver to reward books of conscience, social responsibility, and literary merit. In addition to meeting all of the above qualifications, Jordan has written a story filled with characters as real and compelling as anyone we know.
It is 1946 in the Mississippi Delta, where Memphis-bred Laura McAllan is struggling to adjust to farm life, rear her daughters with a modicum of manners and gentility, and be the wife her land-loving husband, Henry, wants her to be. It is an uphill battle every day. Things started badly when Henry's trusting nature resulted in the family being done out of a nice house in town, thus relegating them to a shack on their property. In addition, Henry's father, Pappy, a sour, mean-spirited devil of a man, moves in with them.
The real heart of the story, however, is the friendship between Jamie, Henry's too-charming brother, and Ronsel Jackson, son of sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm. They have both returned from the war changed men: Jamie has developed a deep love for alcohol and has recurring nightmares; Ronsel, after fighting valiantly for his country and being seen as a man by the world outside the South, is now back to being just another black "boy."
Told in alternating chapters by Laura, Henry, Jamie, Ronsel, and his parents, Florence and Hap, the story unfolds with a chilling inevitability. Jordan's writing and perfect control of the material lift it from being another "ain't-it-awful" tale to a heart-rending story of deep, mindless prejudice and cruelty. This eminently readable and enjoyable story is a worthy recipient of Kingsolver's prize and others as well. --Valerie Ryan
From Publishers Weekly
Jordan's beautiful debut (winner of the 2006 Bellwether Prize for literature of social responsibility) carries echoes of As I Lay Dying, complete with shifts in narrative voice, a body needing burial, flood and more. In 1946, Laura McAllan, a college-educated Memphis schoolteacher, becomes a reluctant farmer's wife when her husband, Henry, buys a farm on the Mississippi Delta, a farm she aptly nicknames Mudbound. Laura has difficulty adjusting to life without electricity, indoor plumbing, readily accessible medical care for her two children and, worst of all, life with her live-in misogynous, racist, father-in-law. Her days become easier after Florence, the wife of Hap Jackson, one of their black tenants, becomes more important to Laura as companion than as hired help. Catastrophe is inevitable when two young WWII veterans, Henry's brother, Jamie, and the Jacksons' son, Ronsel, arrive, both battling nightmares from horrors they've seen, and both unable to bow to Mississippi rules after eye-opening years in Europe. Jordan convincingly inhabits each of her narrators, though some descriptive passages can be overly florid, and the denouement is a bit maudlin. But these are minor blemishes on a superbly rendered depiction of the fury and terror wrought by racism. (Mar.)
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From Bookmarks Magazine
Winner of Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize (2006), which recognizes an unpublished manuscript promoting social responsibility, Jordan’s debut novel exposes the racism and sexism of the Jim Crow South. Most critics embraced this topic, even while recognizing its heavy-handedness; the Washington Post noted that “the book doesn’t challenge our prejudices so much as give us the easy satisfaction of feeling superior to these evil Southerners.” Reviewers disagreed somewhat on the complexity of character development, with a few complaining of unclear motives. They agreed, however, on the power of Jordan’s plain, earthy writing (reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor’s prose, to some) and the compelling plot. If it’s too early to say that “after just one book … here’s a voice that will echo for years to come,” as the San Antonio Express-News claims, Jordan is a new author worth watching.
Copyright � 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A Bruise In America's History, Who's Colors Have Yet To Fade.
By K. Daniels
It's her 30th birthday, and Laura hear's her mother sobbing that night--Sobbing because she believes her daughter will always be a spinster. Yet Laura does find love, marry's and has two children.
It is just after WWII, mid 1940's, and a series of unexpected events leads Laura and her new family from city life, to a rural cotton farm on the Mississippi Delta. A tiny shack, with no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no running water, and cracks in the walls so big that any bug can crawl right through. When it rains, the bridge that leads to the small town is easily washed out, and she is isolated on this farm, she is Mudbound. To go from living (in relative) luxury, to this life is a difficult adjustment for Laura, a struggle the reader can relate to. The book is written first person, and alternately told through the eyes of it's different characters. All of them easy to keep track of because they are so well written, and so memorable.
It is a time when racism in the south was not only rampant, but encouraged. Laura and her family are not black, but the tenants on her farm, a family of sharecroppers are. And when their son returns from WWII, he has become accustomed to the European treatment of black people, their lack of racism. He is not so willing to bow his head, and say Yes Suh, to the white man any longer. This is an important story that tells of a time before the Civil Rights movement, a bruise in America's history who's colors have yet to fade. Well worth your time.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Rural Mississippi in the 1940's.....
By DeMi Reader
Mudbound is the story of a white farming family (Henry, Laura, Jamie and Pappy) and the black sharecropping tenants (Hap, Florence and Ronsel) on their land. It is told in a first person narrative from the perspective of all the characters except Pappy. I am glad he was not given a narrative. His character was hateful and despicable. I believe the author created him so that we would have someone to focus our anger as we struggled to sympathize with the other characters. The different perspectives demonstrated the old saying....that there are always two sides to every story. In this case there are 6 sides. I was also struck by the fact that people can live with one another for years, eat dinner together at the same table, work together and truly never hear one another.
There were several times when reading this novel was hard to do. As an African American woman and mother of a young adult male, reading about the harrowing times of my people and our sons was a strain. The climatic scene with Ronsel will stay with me for awhile.
I didn't favor one character over another. Each was written true to the time and their respective station in life with no real surprises to their character or actions....just like the story itself.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
It was an interesting book to read but...
By Virginia Myers
I usually read to relax and draw the end to a busy day as I lay in bed waiting for my drowsiness to gain control of my mind; however, I also enjoy my reading better if the books have a point to make. I have to say that I was satisfied as I read this book (though the final chapter by Ronsel did not meet my expectations) but I would not recommend it to my friends.
There are five primary characters that we get to know in the book. Laura (the middle aged white wife of the owner of a small cotton farm in Mississippi during the 1940’s who would rather be living a less rural life), Henry (her hard working and set in his ways husband who is determined to succeed in making a good life for his family), Jamie (Henry’s younger brother who has is guilt ridden and suffering from PTSD over his part in WWII), Florence (the salt of the earth black mother who becomes a maid for Laura), and Ronsel (Florence’s son who also has just returned to Mississippi after serving in as a sergeant in Patton’s black tank battalion and is challenged to become a mere “boy” once more in the eyes of the white citizens of his Mississippi community). I felt as if I got inside the skin of each of these characters as I read their parts of the novel. So I would grade the author’s character development as well done.
The only new knowledge that I might have gained from the novel is an increased awareness of how a black man who had served in WWII felt when he returned to his home and realized that what I will call “white man’s justice” was still strong in the old south. I am not saying his military was free from such prejudice (far from it) but I believe he had hopes he would be somewhat cushioned from it. The other feelings and prejudices that were in the book were pretty much what I expected to read about.
The book flips back and forth from the view point of one character to another throughout. I believe this was a good way to allow us to picture first-hand the different perspectives of the same incident described in the book. I had no difficulty with this technique.
The ending bothered me because I wanted a more complete picture of how Ronsel coped with the future. Instead the author gave us a what-if picture that left me hanging.
So why would I not recommend it? I guess because overall it did not let me understand myself better or get a new depth of understanding of the different people that God created. A different final chapter by Ronsel may have changed this recommendation. I guess I just want more out of a book besides a good read before I recommend it
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