MudwomanA 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 career and moral fervor are all consuming. But with an