This hurts.
All of this hurts. It hurts because it’s Mississippi, because it’s north-central Mississippi. Grisham’s damn The Chamber took place here, and also in Tennessee, sure, which is a totally different story. The Mississippi story included a firebombing and a hate-murder, though. That really hurts.
If that one doesn’t stay with you for a time, that’s unspeakable. Stop reading.
This is Isbell, who knows things too much. He probably reads Grisham and others, at least hopefully he’s read the damn Chamber.
How can Isbell — an outsider — know us, Mississippians, this well?