The Summons Condition:Very Good good writing is good thinking

good writing is good thinking put to paper

High politics

the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves

through the imperial wars of the 18th-century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s

The Summons Condition:Very Good good writing is good thinkingOnce Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and