Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (2009, Paperback)

This novel of the South in the years immediately following the end of WWII packs quite a punch. Black soldiers returning home after serving their nation so admirably were not so ready to return to the rule of Jim Crow. Other soldiers returned home with what we would label as PTSD today. Put these young men into the existing culture of hard farming, sharecropping, and the KKK and things are bound to happen. This story is told through the eyes of six different people. That may sound like a recipe for confusion but the author handles it very well. The reader can see the events from many angles giving a fuller picture of what was going on. If you read The Help, you will appreciate seeing what happened a decade before that book took place.