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Laura thought she would never get married, but soon finds herself a wife and mother living on a farm in the mississippi delta, dealing with the mud, a cantankerous fatherinlaw, and a drunken brotherinlaw haunted by what he has seen and done in the war. A tough read but a rewarding one and a book where the characters will stay with me. Nov 07, 2008 in a week of historic american elections, hillary jordan s emotive debut, set in 1940s mississippi, is a timely reminder of the realities of postbellum politics in the south. Blige when henry mcallan moves his citybred wife, laura, to a cotton farm in the mississippi delta in 1946, she finds herself in a. She started it while studying for an mfa in creative writing from columbia university. Check out other translated books in french, spanish languages. In the nonreading hours i worked or drifted to sleep with hillary jordan s six narrating characters chattering on gently in my head.
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