Mudbound
The International Bestseller Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards. 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 pla...show more
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If you liked "The Help," then you'll probably really like this. It's more "real," in my opinion, but was really good. It's not "let the white folk come in and save the black folk." It's just the story of two families, one white and one black, in Mississippi during share cropping days.
Here is what this book did for me:
(That's a jump start, folks.)
I had been reading just to read for awhile. The dreaded reading rut (dun dun dun). All of a sudden I was reading because I couldn't stand putting the book down. When I was away I thought about coming home to the book. This book.
This was an engrossing and often difficult, often heartbreaking story. What's it about? The South, racism, war, the love of land, hatred, a life settled. It'...read more
(That's a jump start, folks.)
I had been reading just to read for awhile. The dreaded reading rut (dun dun dun). All of a sudden I was reading because I couldn't stand putting the book down. When I was away I thought about coming home to the book. This book.
This was an engrossing and often difficult, often heartbreaking story. What's it about? The South, racism, war, the love of land, hatred, a life settled. It'...read more
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