In Jordan\'s prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal.
Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the b.
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