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Hannah Payne awakens to a nightmare. She is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home. She is now a convicted criminal, and her skin color has been genetically altered. Her crime, according to the State of Texas: the murder of her unborn child, whose father she refuses to name. Her color: red. The color of newly shed blood.

Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.

Best-selling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an elegant, international anthology of erotica that explores the diverse spectrum of desire, written by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN Awards, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Edgar Award, and more. There are stories of sexual obsession and sexual love, of domination and submission. There’s revenge sex, unrequited sex, funny sex, tortured sex, fairy tale sex, and even sex in the afterlife.

Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity.

1946 auf einer Baumwollfarm im Mississippi-Delta: Laura ist ihrem Ehemann zuliebe aufs Land gezogen. In eine Umgebung, die ihr fremd ist und Angst macht. Inmitten der neuen Herausforderungen für sie geraten zwei junge Kriegsheimkehrer. Jamie, Lauras Schwager, der sichtlich um ihr Wohlbefinden bemüht ist und dem Laura verbotenerweise Avancen macht, und Ronsel, der älteste Sohn ihrer farbigen Pächterfamilie.