Hillary Jordan
1) Mudbound
Author
Language
English
Description
The International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family. But after she's convicted of murder, she awakens in a changed body to a nightmarish new life. In a timely fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-too-distant future, the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but "chromed" and released back into the population to survive as best...
3) Aftermirth
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I stopped being funny the day my wife was electrocuted by her underwire bra." So begins "Aftermirth," a dark comedy that explores the absurdity of death through the eyes of thirty-one-year-old comedian, writer, and actor, Michael Larssen. What is horribly funny to the rest of the world is devastating to Michael, who loves his wife deeply, especially her bright, rippling, abandoned laughter, which captivated him from the first time he ever heard it....
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached. A bold collection of stories about sex that leaves you guessing who wrote what. Bestselling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an elegant, international anthology of erotica that explores the diverse spectrum of desire, written by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN Awards, the Women's Prize for Fiction, Edgar Award, and more. There are stories of sexual obsession...
