Hillary Jordan, Author of “MUDBOUND” (Reading)

“This is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made as real as rain, as true as this minute. Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

Please join us for an intimate reading with Hillary Jordan, 2006 recipient of the Bellwether Prize for Social Change Literature. The author will be available to sign books, provided by Rhythm & Muse.

Now available at Rhythm & Muse Bookstore in Jamaica Plain

MUDBOUND is a stunning debut novel told in the voices of six distinct characters.
A distinctly Southern tragedy on the grandest scale, MUDBOUND reveals what it was like for WWII soldiers—both black and white—to return to an unchanged South. Compulsively readable and rife with tension, MUDBOUND is about heroism and loyalty; family rivalry; and the myriad forms of prejudice, both subtle and brutal.

About the author

Hillary Jordan grew up in Dallas, Texas and Muskogee, Oklahoma. She received her BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College and spent fifteen years working as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She got her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

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