This book is sort of the other side to life presented in The Help. In The Help, most things turned out in the end. Not so for this book.
This book is about a white family who moves to a farm in Mississippi. The farmer husband and the dutiful wife call the farm Mudbound since rain makes it impossible to get off the farm.
An African American tenant farming family on the land rounds out the main character list. Each chapter is told from an alternating point of view (wife, brother, son of the tenant farmer), but the book is really easy to follow.
There is no happy ending here. Just a terrible picture of the evils of racism. But one that moved me and that I will remember.
This book is about a white family who moves to a farm in Mississippi. The farmer husband and the dutiful wife call the farm Mudbound since rain makes it impossible to get off the farm.
An African American tenant farming family on the land rounds out the main character list. Each chapter is told from an alternating point of view (wife, brother, son of the tenant farmer), but the book is really easy to follow.
There is no happy ending here. Just a terrible picture of the evils of racism. But one that moved me and that I will remember.
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