Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Six voices tell this story of post WWII Jim Crow South. Two soldiers, one black, one white, return from the war changed by having served in Europe. They have seen a life that could be and have little tolerance for the culture waiting for them in this small town. Jamie is the brother of the land owner of a piece of land that is often cut off from the town by flooding rivers. Ronsel is the son of one of the sharecroppers helping to work that land. Insights into the sharecropper relationship may be a new to the reader but the disastrous consequences of the friendship between the two men is unfortunately all too familiar. Given recent events, one wonders we will forever be trapped by our racist past.