Mudbound is the story of a woman who follows her husband – unwillingly – to life on a farm in the Mississippi Delta complete with dirt floors, racism, and wife-beating husbands. (Re)enters her husband’s younger brother, back from World War II, along with a black tenant’s son who also fought in a much more egalitarian situation than the farm and complications ensue.
The ending, however horrifying, is easy to foresee but the story is well told and when the book ends you’ll want to know what happens to Laura and Florence, the black tenant.
