![]() ![]() While Henry works the land he loves, Laura struggles to raise their two young daughters in a crude shack with no indoor plumbing or electricity, under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. In the winter of 1946, Henry McAllen moves his city-bred wife, Laura, from their comfortable home in Memphis, Tennessee to a remote cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta-a place she finds both foreign and frightening. It was adapted as a 2017 film of the same title. She started it while studying for an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. ![]() The novel took Jordan seven years to write. It has been translated into French, Italian, Serbian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish and has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide. Mudbound (2008) is the debut novel by American author Hillary Jordan. ![]()
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