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A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

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Last March, Algonquin offered a similar giveaway featuring Hillary Jordan's novel Mudbound. Here's a portion of their review from the book:

All our book club members really enjoyed Mudbound, and we thank you for the opportunity to win the free copies! It provided much food for thought as we read it--and engendered some lively discussion when we got together.
 
Some of the aspects we enjoyed most included Ms. Jordan's well-developed, well-defined characters and her depiction of time and place. The title, also, is wonderfully chosen, because even though we don't learn right away that it is their farm's name, images of how the characters are "mudbound" hit us from the outset. Think of Jamie and Henry caked in mud while digging Pappy's grave in the opening pages--and especially Laura's first lines. ("When I think of the farm, I think of mud . . . encrusting the children's knees and hair . . . sucking at my feet like a greedy newborn on the breast. . . . There was no defeating it. . . . I dreamed in brown.") That image remained with us through the book.
 
This is a wonderful book, and we thank you for sharing it with us!
 
--the book club with no name
Santa Cruz, CA

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