Few debut novels garner the kind of widespread acclaim that has greeted Mudbound. This captivating story set in the Mississippi Delta features city-bred Laura McAllan, a woman struggling to adjust to life on her husband’s isolated farm, her brother-in-law, Jamie, newly home from the Second World War, and Ronsel Jackson, son of the black sharecroppers who work the McAllan land and himself a war hero. When the two men refuse to live by Mississippi’s strict racial mores, tragedy ensues. Hillary Jordan has written a moving, powerful novel of forbidden love, betrayal and murder, capturing a dark period of the past.