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Mudbound

by Hillary Jordan

Algonquin

March 2008, 324 pages, $22.95

by Diane Leach

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It's impossible to read Mudbound without images of the Ninth Ward flooding one’s inner eye, or recalling the remarks made by former First Lady Barbara Bush.

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