Author: Hillary Jordan

Review: When She Woke

I originally gained interest for When She Woke because I loved Hillary Jordan’s first novel Mudbound. I felt the premise sounded very thought-provoking and being pro-choice myself grew an even keener interest. Then I saw it had been compared to Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale. I. Must. Read. After Hannah is released from her thirty […]

Posted February 7, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments

Review: Mudbound

I read Mudbound several years ago for book club. We had gone through a rut of “happy books” which are not to my taste — I prefer a little hardship in my reading material. A guy had recently joined which had me thinking “good, our selections won’t/can’t be gender specific and will be of more […]

Posted January 24, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments