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A PROMISING BIRD.

ROMAN.
Hillary Jordan - Belfond editions - 2010 - 391 pages.

A forbidden love, a terrible betrayal of Mississippi in the 1940s. A novel of astonishing power which plunges us into the brutality and contradictions of the Old South.
When she discovered that her husband's firm recently acquired Henry, Laura Mc Allan understands that there will never be happy. Yet, wife and devoted mother, she strives to raise their two girls under the watchful eye of her hateful stepfather, a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
While Mc Allan struggling to take advantage of a very fertile land, two soldiers returning from the Front: Jamie, the younger brother of Henry, as seductive and sensitive as his eldest is taciturn and withdrawn. Suddenly, Laura feels reborn ...
Ronsele Jackson, the son of sharecroppers, a descendant of slaves who for four years, has reason to believe he was a man. But the South will undertake to remind him he is a negro ...

1945, after six years Bachelor of war, Europe was devastated by bombs and chaos, sees its liberating start to the new world. Among them, two young Americans: one is white, his name is Jamie Mc Allan, the other is black, he called Ronsele Jackson. Both know they live near Marietta, a small rural town located in the state of Mississippi.

For each of them, the homecoming will be difficult, the history of their country, are never far away! And even if Civil War sounded the death knell of the plantation economy that was once the strength of the South, thinking about them, change little: the discrimination against blacks and they still persist to suffer from the segregation that is still too hard, especially in southern states comme le Mississippi.

Dans son roman, Hillary Jordan montre très bien, que si la victoire du Nord mit fin à la guerre de Sécession en 1865, et qu'elle amena l'abolition de l'esclavage, les Noirs près d'un siècle plus tard, continuaient toujours à souffrir du racisme. N'ayant toujours pas le droit d'entrer ni dans les cafés, ni dans les restaurants et les cinémas, fréquentés par leurs concitoyens blancs.

Chronique rurale quasi-naturaliste sur le Vieux Sud des années 40, où chaque personnage prend la parole à tour de rôle - "MISSISSIPPI" évoque avec une certaine gravité vous l'aurez compris, le thème du Racism: A crucial chapter in the history of the United States. Hillary Jordan plunges his reader into a world steeped in primary instincts and certainties, embodying the racist and murderous demons of some white America and Puritan. In this deeply moving romantic drama, the young American novelist, stands out as a pointillist emotion, skillfully evoking this world, while sparing us the good feeling of pathos and misbehavior. This, the strength of this first novel! So hurry knowledge of Laura, Henry, Florence, Harp, Jamie, and all other Ronsele , you will not regret it!
8 / 10 .