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Hillary Jordan

Author of Mudbound

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Sunriver Books & Music: Fiction Book Club (March 22 at 18:30)
Mudbound by Hilary Jordan is a searing tale of life in a small southern town right after WWII. It is told from the shifting perspectives of the main characters. Laura resigned herself to being an aunt, not a mother. She lived with her parents in Memphis and enjoyed her job teaching school. Hope for a ... (more)family and home of her own bloomed when her brother’s friend Henry starts to call. She marries Henry and settles into raising a family. Henry doesn’t share his dream for owning a farm with Laura, it comes as a shock when he announces his purchase of a farm in a lonely part of the Mississippi Delta. It is an even worse shock when she is told her racist father in law will be living with them, making her life a misery. Henry is full of land fever, the need to own it, farm it, make it produce. He is not a bad man, but he has the attitudes of a southern man of his time and background. His younger brother Jamie is a charmer, life away fighting in WWII has both damaged him and freed him from the prevailing attitudes of his southern home. Ronsel is the son of tenants on Henry’s farm. He has been away fighting too. It was a shock to be in Europe where the front door was open to him and he did not have to sit in the back of the bus. It is a shock to return to the south where the back door, down cast eyes, and the back of the bus are his lot. Befriending a white man is dangerous. Their lives intersect in tragedy. The Fiction Book Club will have much to discuss.
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Hillary Jordan grew up in Dallas, Texas and Muskogee, Oklahoma. She received her BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College and spent fifteen years as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She got her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
Mudbound, published by Algonquin Books in March 2008, is her first book. It won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded biennially to a debut novel that addresses issues of social justice. Hillary’s short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including StoryQuarterly and Carolina Quarterly. Her website is www.hillaryjordan.com
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