Ford County

Summary: In his first collection of short stories, John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. Featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two elder sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven years; Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer, gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he's ever seem; Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton's most ambitious hustler Three good ol' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the city of Memphic to give blood to a grievously injured friend; The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It's a place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives; Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal; Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS.

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