The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.Ī Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.īONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from John Grisham's The Litigators. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. A Painted House John Grisham 3.73 88,104 ratings4,595 reviews Want to read Kindle 9.99 Rate this book 'The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.įor six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted.

Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard.

His recent books include The Judges List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series. The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive 1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages.

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