Ford County, by John Grisham
Hill country folk have their own way of dealing with life, death, and disaster in literary short story collection FORD COUNTY. Country boys whoop it up in Memphis; a con man sheds light on nursing home abuses; a low-level class-action lawyer escapes to the Caribbean. A mild-mannered man loses his wife to a huckster and gains her back by playing blackjack. An angered, grieving father kidnaps a defense lawyer; a death row inmate’s family witnesses his execution; a wealthy family’s AIDS-stricken son returns home to die and finds acceptance in a most unlikely place. Rich, poor. Black, white. Mississippi.
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