In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred laura mcallan is trying to raise her children on her husband's mississippi delta farm - a place she finds for...In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred laura mcallan is trying to raise her children on her husband's mississippi delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land.