Hillary Jordan: 5 books

Mississippidelta, 1946. Laura McAllan woont met haar gezin op een grote katoenplantage in een onherbergzame streek. Ze worstelt om voor haar kinderen een veilige plek te creëren, en het subtiele evenwicht te bewaren in de omgang met de pachters die op het landgoed wonen. Maar zwaarder nog weegt de...

**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...

Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated...

Après le succès de Mississippi, Hillary Jordan revient avec un roman au suspense haletant, situé dans un futur proche effrayant de réalisme, un pamphlet virulent contre les dérives totalitaristes de nos sociétés puritaines et intolérantes. Une Chrome. Une Rouge. Pour Hannah Payne, la...

“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...