And you know that poor child gone grow up wrong-headed, if it grows up at all.”, “If women's pants were suggestive, men's were equally so, and they revealed a great deal more of what was underneath them. That'll give you time to think real hard on what I been trying to tell you.”, “I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. I wonder what her third will be? Two strong women, one white, one black, different circumstances but both with a strong love for the. I think that is what I loved about this book, it made me think about unfairness, injustice but about real strength as well. This is a great southern work of fiction. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. Then, just so you know for sure it's Me you dealing with, the next morning after you put that mule down and buried it and you up on the ladder trying to nail the roof back onto the shed I'm gone to let that weak top rung, the one you ain't got around to fixing yet, I'm gone let it rot all the way through so you fall off and break your own leg, and I'm gone to send Florence and Lilly Mae to a birthing and the twins out to the far end of the field so you laying there half the day. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. I first read this author's second novel, "When she woke" and being a Scarlet Letter fan I really enjoyed this modern day take on that novel. Great debut novel for Hillary Jordan! Said he didn't expect you'd live another forty-eight hours. Set in the deep south immediately after WWII, the story examines the lives of hardworking farmers, passionate wives, members of the KKK, and the returning soldiers both black and white. . Refresh and try again. And then there is Henry's father, Pappy, a horrifying individual, full of bigotry and hate, who terrifies Laura and her children. Published March 17th 2009 He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain’t around to do it most of the time. He don't know it's poison, he just sees something pretty and red and he wants it in his mouth...There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.”, “I give whatever I can these days, and not just out of guilt or duty. Certainly I realize that the theme is worth exploring, and that if you want to write a book set in the South, especially between the years covering Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era, race is going to play a part. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Because, Dickens tells us, his father died of a delicate constitution. I doubt I’ll approach that again until my kids are. Hillary Jordan was at my college last week talking about her book. It's the ones who spent their tours well behind the lines who want to tell you all about it, and the ones who never served who want to know.”, “FIRST TIME I LAID eyes on Laura McAllan she was out of her head with mama worry. She takes their sweat and blood and the sweat and blood of their women and children and when she done took it all she takes their bodies too, churning and churning em up till they one and the same, them and her.”, “I loved all my children, but I loved Ronsel the most. She mentioned something about a sequel. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.”, “There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.”, “How I wished sometimes that I could join him in his stark, right-angled world, where everything was either right or wrong and there was no doubt which was which. It's about racism , hatred, inequality and unspeakable wrongs . With a mother fearful that her daughter would be left on the shelf, Laura marries Henry McAllan, a World War 1 veteran. Welcome back. What a book! by Harper Perennial, Published June 1st 2011 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. Helping that child be up to the mama. A wonderful story, although very distressing, also, very true, as I grew up in the south in the 50's and 60's and I understand what was happening. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Two of the characters, Jaime McAllen and Ronsel Jackson, are young men who have just returned from the war and who have experienced things that link them more to one another than to their own communities. This is a story of two families, the McAllans and the black Jacksons, bound uncomfortably together through their sharecropping agreements. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.”, “Daddy shook Pappy's hand, then Henry's, then hugged the children. I didn't want to see the story end. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Editions for Mudbound: 156512569X (Hardcover published in 2008), 1565126777 (Paperback published in 2009), (Kindle Edition published in 2008), (Kindle Ed... Home My Books by Neri Pozza, I narratori delle tavole, Paperback, 316 pages, Published November 2nd 2017 The fact that it was well made and encased in a pair of blue jeans didn't mean she was inviting anything.”, “It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that didn't raise a voice against it.”, “There’s a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.”. It's why I don't believe in God. A compelling novel, written with eloquence. When it rains, the waters rise up. When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can’t expect no sense from her. Ask and answer questions about books! Mudbound – Lágrimas sobre o Mississippi book. Often, I would hesitate to read on because I knew something disturbing and tragic was about to happen. Welcome back. When I saw she had a first novel, I put it on my TBR and there it remained until as a New Year's resolution I decided to read at least two book from my TBR each month. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.”, “You been forgetting Who's in charge and who ain't. by Arqueiro. by Recorded Books, Published September 24th 2009 My vacation is over and with it a return to active reading. I never really thought about the blacks that had fought in World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen, tank divisions and after discharge had to return to the south where their families were, and still told to use the back door of a business. The audio version is terrific! Mudbound is the first of those reads and appropriately enough, I finished this historical fiction set in 1940s Mississippi during black history month. So here's what I'm gone do: I'm gone send a storm so big it rips the roof off the shed where you keep that mule you so proud of. There's a lot of depth here for such a fast, cleanly-written read. Initial Impressions: Mudbound: April 2018, John Grisham's Recommended Thriller Reading List. This book is being made into a Netflix movie to be shown in November, that is why I wanted to go ahead and read this book. “What we can't speak, we say in silence.”, “This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. She looked at herself in the mirror, irritated suddenly by the double standard. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. All of the members of these two families, notably the hateful old McAdams Patriarch Pappy, and Florence the strong black. I always find it odd to say I loved a book when the story told is unpleasant. I enjoyed it so much! Error rating book. It is wonderful that an author can write something like this as their debut novel. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. I look forward to other books by this author. But I loved the way the story was written and how much you cared about all the characters. Yes, but where did this mortal delicacy come from? The Mississippi Delta area, in the Jim Crow south, where fairness for backs just very seldom happened. by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Published June 24th 2016 I heard there will be a sequel to Mudbound. Published March 4th 2008 It's told by each character in turn, so we hear lots of different voices as the tale progresses, and we can witness the way they see the events unfolding. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.”, “When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. City bred Laura finds her new surroundings a shock, both demanding a. If that was a sin I reckoned God would forgive me for it, seeing as how He the one stacked the cards in the first place.”, “Florence may have sensed something, but I had no idea of what I was setting in motion the day I gave Ronsel Jackson a lift from town.”, “Jamie didn't talk to me about the war. It takes place just after WW II in rural Mississippi and is told by several POV's, all of them main players in what happens. But, a friendship between a white man and a black man is not just risky, it is forbidden, and there is a sense of impending doom that hangs over the novel as it progresses.