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For a few seconds, shadowed by her eyelashes and backlit by the hard white light emanating from the ceiling, they appeared black. Buy when she woke by hillary jordan from waterstones today. Her stories have been translated into 15 languages. Fierce, unflinching and deeply human, mudbound is told in riveting personal narratives by the individual members of the mcallan and jackson families. An interview with hillary jordan about when she woke and questions for discussion. Biography hillary jordan is an american novelist who grew up in dallas, texas and muskogee.
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