![]() ![]() During the Hailey trial, the Ku Klux Klan had tried to intimidate Jake by burning his home. Jake Brigance, Carl Lee's former attorney, had gained much fame after the Hailey trial, as well as the respect of the black community and of many whites, but he has little to no money to show for it. Accompanying the body are very specific funeral and burial instructions. Hubbard has hanged himself from the tree because his terminal lung cancer had become too painful. An employee of wealthy recluse Seth Hubbard is instructed to meet his boss at a location by these sycamores one early Sunday afternoon. The story begins three years after the sensational events in the trial of Carl Lee Hailey ( A Time to Kill). It is suggested that these sycamores are very old, having been planted by Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers and their stolen, enslaved Africans in what would become the state of Mississippi. The trees play an important role in the book's plot, though the full significance becomes clear only in the end of the novel. ![]() The title refers to a row of sycamore trees in the countryside near the fictional town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi. ![]() ( September 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. ![]()
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Her only happiness coming from making others miserable.įlynn Hendrick lived a life completely disconnected even as he struggled to become something more than that boy with Asperger's. ![]() A sad and lonely existence for a young woman who had come to expect nothing more for herself. ![]() ![]() In return she's going to change Josey's life because, clearly, it is not the closet of a happy woman. Until she finds her closet harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee Baker, a tough-talking, tender-hearted woman who is one part nemesis and two parts fairy godmother.įleeing a life of bad luck and big mistakes, Della Lee has decided Josey's clandestine closet is the safest place to crash. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother's house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night. Twenty-seven-year-old Josey is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. ![]() ![]() Until she finds her closet harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee B. ![]() ![]() ![]() |