Author: Hillary Jordan
Pages: 328
Language: PG13
Content: PG
Level: High School/Adult
Recommendation: Good Read
Summary: Prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. 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. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.
Review: I'm not always a fan of novels that tell a story from different characters' perspectives but Jordan made it work. Great book for those interested in the history of the southern states, or for more mature readers.
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