Mudwoman

A haunting new novel from Joyce Carol Oates.Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate – or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories.Meredith ‘M.R.’ Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose commitm...