Uncommon clay

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Where to find it

Davis Library (8th floor)

Call Number
PS3563.A679 U53 2001
Status
Available
Call Number
PS3563.A679 U53 2001 c. 2
Status
Available

Law Library — 1st Floor Collection (1st floor)

Call Number
PS3563.A679 U53 2001
Status
Available

North Carolina Collection (Wilson Library)

Call Number
C813 M354u1
Status
In-Library Use Only
Item Note
Dustjacket.
Call Number
C813 M354u1 c. 2
Status
Available

Rare Book Collection (Wilson Library)

Call Number
Mystery-Detective M1194
Status
In-Library Use Only
Item Note
Dust jacket.

Undergrad Library

Call Number
PS3563.A679 U53 2001
Status
Available

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Summary

The dark earth in the piedmont of North Carolina's Randolph County is heavy with bright red clay. And it is this same rich soil that attracts many of the South's most skilled potters. Also drawn to this region is the visiting judge Deborah Knott, who is there for decidedly different reasons. Deborah faces the most exasperating case a judge can handle--overseeing the equitable distribution of marital property. The antagonists are James Lucas Nordan and Sandra Kay Hitchcock, both potters who are bitterly divorcing after almost twenty-five years of marriage. As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans' history together produced great artistic achievements. Much of the credit for this stellar legacy can go to Amos Nordan, James Lucas's father and the proud clan patriarch. At the same time, old Amos is no stranger to tragedy. Two years earlier, his more talented son, Donny, apparently committed suicide . . . in a manner so scandalous that Amos still can't bear to speak of it. Suddenly, amid the pettybickering, an even more gruesome death strikes the Nordans. Violence, seemingly borne out of Providence, stalks the family homestead as the sins

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