Mudbound, Literally and Figuratively

Mudbound

Laura is 30, still living at home in 1940s Memphis, when she meets Henry MacAllan.  Henry is nobody's idea of a Prince Charming, but Laura feels like a spinster and sees Henry as her way out.  At first they are happy, but one day Henry decides to buy a farm in southern Missisippi and take his family to live there. 

Jordan does a good job of examining race relations in this period, and tells a gripping story.  However, I preferred her  more recent futuristic novel,  When She Woke .