Atlee is a protessor of law al Rastersingarvesenes forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise#divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's#blacksheep. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton,#Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.

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