A Time To Kill by John Grisham

John Grisham's "A Time to Kill". Like so many, I backtracked to "A Time to Kill", having first read Grisham's blockbuster "The Firm".

Perhaps it was the commercial-quality of "The Firm" which left me unprepared for the deeper messages of "A Time to Kill". Having grown up in the south suburbs of Chicago during the 70s, I am no stranger to the racial divide in America.

This book painfully exposes what ignorance, intolerance and history-held-captive brings to bear on a community or region. The incredible power of our court system, of our collective capacity to feel and to learn were lessons in this, Grisham's first work. "A Time to Kill" teaches what can be righted in America and the power of the profession of law to ensure it is so.

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