This prize-winning novel is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.
They are with me still..
As Barbara 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.
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.
It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.
But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South.
Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero.
Jamie McAllan, Laura\'s brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not--charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat.
In the midst of the family\'s struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land.
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 Jordan\'s prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal.
The International Bestseller Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
This prize-winning novel is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale
