One Line Summary
John Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi to confront how law, race, and inheritance collide beneath the shade of an old sycamore tree.
Opening Impression
Sycamore Row opens with moral weight rather than suspense, signalling a courtroom drama concerned with reckoning rather than victory.
Synopsis
A handwritten will leaves a fortune to a Black housekeeper, igniting a probate battle that exposes decades of racial cruelty.
Analysis
Themes: Legal justice versus moral justice, inheritance as atonement, and the limits of the law.
Verdict
A sober, powerful novel that proves Grisham’s courtroom can still confront history rather than evade it.
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