After suffering a heart attack at the age of 42, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old - and suddenly everything changes. But he soon discovers that being young again is not all it is cracked up to be - and what he actually wants more than anything is to have his old life back
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. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husban…