Grisham, at 58, has many books ahead of him, but this could be the one he’ll be remembered for. “Sycamore Row” is easily the best of his books that I’ve read and ranks on my list with Stephen King’s “ 11/22/63” as one of the two most impressive popular novels in recent years. Grisham’s return to Clanton is triumphant. Thus begins John Grisham’s powerful new novel, “ Sycamore Row.” It takes the author back to Clanton (think Klan Town) and to Brigance, the young lawyer who in Grisham’s first novel, “ A Time to Kill” (1989), defended a black man who killed two white men who had raped his daughter. Such challenges were predictable, in part because Hubbard was white and the woman he chose to receive his fortune is black. He also wrote to the Clanton lawyer Jake Brigance, asking him to defend his will against all legal challenges. The previous day he wrote a new will that left nothing to his two children and more than $20 million to his housekeeper, Lettie Lang, who had nursed him in his final illness.
Arich, reclusive old man named Seth Hubbard, already dying of lung cancer, hangs himself from a sycamore tree outside Clanton, Miss., one rainy afternoon in 1988.
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