Indigo Field

Summary

Sir Walter Raleigh Award Winner, 2023

A Women's National Book Association Great Group Read Selection

"Bravo. Utmost admiration. Superb voices and wordplay, incredible story, multiple stories. . . . " —Foreword Reviews

"Sparkles with a powerful sense of place . . . compelling . . . hard to put down." —Midwest Book Review

"An impressive, sprawling novel about love and hate, life and death, sin and redemption, one worth any reader's time." —Southern Literary Review

"Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, earthy spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to forget." —Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Invention of Wings, The Book of Longings, and The Secret Life of Bees

In the rural South, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of the highway, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three centuries of crimes are hidden, and only she knows the explosive secrets buried there. When the colonel runs into her car, causing a surprising amount of damage, it sparks a feud that sets loose the spirits in the Field, both benevolent and vengeful. In prose that's been called "dazzling" and "mesmerizing," in the animated voices of trees and birds and people, in Southern-voiced storytelling as deeply layered as that of Pat Conroy, Marjorie Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning.