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Two men return to a Mississippi Delta farm from WW11, Jamie the younger brother of Henry McAllan who owns the ramshackle place (dubbed by his wife Laura as Mudbound) and Ronsel Jackson a young black man whose family works as their sharecroppers. Since this is the time of Jim Crow it's no surprise that when the two men become friends the nearby town residents are all riled up. All of the members of these two families, notably the hateful old McAdams Patriarch Pappy, and Florence the strong black Matriarch, will soon be drawn into the life changing drama.
This is a really good though heart wrenching, work of historical fiction which takes on some very tough issues such as those faced by black men who fought in the war and returned home to find themselves still in a racially unaccepting nation. It won the Bellwether prize for fiction in 2006 and is now also a movie which is available on Netflix.
5 stars- read for Moderators choice OTSLT - April