Ford County : Stories
The Washington Post – Carolyn See: Set in a small Mississippi town not unlike the one in which Grisham started practicing law, these seven stories seem so artless that the artlessness turns into an art. They're terrifically charming, if only for this one thing: They start out at a beginning and march straight through to an end. They lack plot twists, literary surprises, authorial showing off?stories that?no matter what your literary scruples?you absolutely can't stop reading.