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The Book Was Better (but the film was still excellent)

November 27, 2018 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

cbr10bingo The Book Was Better The novel Mudbound was a Pen America Literary Award winner and was turned into an award winning film starring Mary J. Blige. It’s a powerful and tragic story about land, love, friendship and racism in post-WWII Mississippi, told from multiple points of view. Both the novel and the film are excellent, but I must give the nod to the original novel as being better. The novel (and film) open with brothers Henry and Jamie McAllen burying their Pap while Henry’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr10bingo, ElCicco, fiction CBR10, Hillary Jordan, Mudbound, ReadWomen, The Book was Better?

ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr10bingo, ElCicco, fiction CBR10, Hillary Jordan, Mudbound, ReadWomen, The Book was Better? ·
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