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FCBF official booksellers:
The 2012 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 16-18 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Author Biography
Hillary Jordan has won wide-spread acclaim with her first novel, Mudbound. It was awarded the Bellwether Prize for Fiction (2006), which goes to an as-yet unpublished literary novel addressing issues of social justice. Published in 2008, the book went on to win a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association and was named one of the Ten Best Debut Novels of the Decade by Paste magazine. Mudbound is set in the Mississippi Delta of 1946 and centers on two families, the McAllans and the Jacksons. The family members' struggles with love and hate, past and present, and honor and betrayal drive the story to a point of tragedy then unexpected redemption.
Jordan grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. She received her BA from Wellesley College in Massachusetts and her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She lives in New York and is working on her next novel.
Additional Information
- Hillary Jordan's website
- Jordan talks about Mudbound
- More about the Bellwether Prize and Mudbound from NPR's Morning Edition, 14 March 2008
- Jordan reads from Mudbound on an episode of The Writers' Block from KQED in San Francisco (contains adult language and content)
Hillary Jordan will read from her award-winning first novel, MUDBOUND, and discuss its long, winding, pot-hole-filled and hairpin-curved road to publication.
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