Audio Book Description:
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He`s forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprisedivorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notions of a family`s black sheep. And he has a father, a very sick oldman who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all asJudge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has toweredover local law and politics forforty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansionand become a recluse. With the end insight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on hishandome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south, to hishometown, to the place where hegrew up,which he prefers now toavoid. But the family meeting does not take place. TheJudge dies too soon, and in doing soleaves behind a shocking secretknown only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.
