<Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 328 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 1 - 56512 - 569 - X </Td> </Tr> <P> Mudbound (2008) is the debut novel by American author Hillary Jordan . It has been translated into French, Italian, Serbian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish and has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide . The novel took Jordan seven years to write . She started it while studying for an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University . It was adapted as a 2017 film of the same title . </P> <P> In the winter of 1946, Henry McAllen moves his city - bred wife, Laura, from their comfortable home in Memphis, Tennessee to a remote cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta--a place she finds both foreign and frightening . While Henry works the land he loves, Laura struggles to raise their two young daughters in a crude shack with no indoor plumbing or electricity, under the eye of her hateful, racist father - in - law . When it rains, the waters rise up and swallow the bridge to town, stranding the family in a sea of mud . </P>

Is the movie mudbound based on a book