Norton Road

By all rights the road should have been named Jones Road, given Deke Norton's failing health when Mississippi adopted the E-911 system, but the county turned a blind eye and gave Oscar Jones one more reason to complain.

Life is one lemon after another for Oscar. He lost a daughter to pneumonia and a son to California, then he lost the love of his life to cancer. When the county school board declares him too old to keep the grounds and forces him to retire, something inside him snaps. He stops complaining and starts doing.

Davis Khane is a businessman. A pillar of the community. The furniture factory next to Oscar's property is the county's largest employer and his greatest achievement. It's not his fault that the sawdust from his frame shop drifts, or that the manufacture of furniture produces noise. When the old man next door becomes a thorn in his side and the county sheriff turns a blind eye, he hires his own man to correct the problem. He's an old man. It should be easy.

Norton Road is a story of one man's struggle against power, and of power's struggle against an old man.