- Race relations, African American veterans, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945
"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 the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land.
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Earnest, grave, overwhelming and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Hillary Jordan
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 335
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Charnwood, Algonquin paperbacks
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781565126770
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