Mudbound

A powerful story set in the Jim Crow South, where prejudice takes many forms both subtle and brutal. Laura McAllan tries to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi farm, which she finds foreign and frightening, while two young men return from the war to work the land. One, a charming and haunted white man, and the other, a black man considered less than human by the society he fought for. Their unlikely friendship drives this novel to its tragic conclusion, told from the perspectives of each family member.