Another excellent Grisham.
This time a female protagonist – Samantha Kofer.
She’s a young lawyer let go by the world’s largest legal firm in New York because of the 2008 Recession. The one on George Bush’s watch. The one caused by lack of government banking regulation.
Samantha is furloughed. She can keep her health benefits and legacy at the firm for a year if she does charity legal work.
She relocates to the rural Appalachia Mountains in Virginia. A slowly dying coal town.
Most of the book deals with a battle against strip-coal mining lawyers. I found it fascinating.
The book is titled Gray Mountain, one of those that’s been decimated by strip mining.
There are other clients. All too poor to be able to hire a private lawyer. Case studies.
Some found it preachy. It is.
Some found it too slow moving. I’d disagree. It kept me going.
Some critics I’m sure never read the book. They are some sort of Trump / Coal advocates. Lashing out.
