Mudbound is the debut novel by American author Hillary Jordan. It has been translated into French, Italian, Serbian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish and has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide. The novel took Jordan seven years to write. She started it while studying for an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. It was adapted as a 2017 film of the same title.
About Mudbound
Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated period drama based on the novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan which depicts how one white and one black WWII veteran each address racism and PTSD upon returning home to rural Mississippi.
Achievement of Mudbound
The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival and would be bought and released by Netflix. The film won the Robert Altman Award given by the Independent Spirit Awards. Rachel Morrison became the first woman ever nominated in the category of Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards.
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Novels set in Mississippi.. Novels about racism.
