Mississippi

Hillary Jordan talks about her first novel and Bellwether Prize winner, Mudbound, “set on a desolate farm in the Mississippi at the end of World War II,” with Lynn Neary.

“’I started out writing what I thought was going to be a short story in the voice of Laura,’ Jordan says, ‘and as the story grew, I just found myself wanting to hear from other people. As the story got larger, as it embraced these other themes, these larger themes about war and about Jim Crow, I wanted to hear from those people.’" – from "Racism and Family Secrets in Mudbound," by Lynn Neary, NPR Website