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. She is adopted by a Quaker family, and begins to suppress those painful memories.Meredith 'M.R.' Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose commitment to her ca...