A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. 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. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes, each other. 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. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The narrator is a seven year old farm boy named Luke Chandler, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. A Painted House by John Grisham Thu 06.27 EST T he hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day.

It could be a 'good crop.' Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. Initially published in serial form, the book was released in six installments in The Oxford American magazine.

Inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, it is Grishams first major work outside the legal thriller genre in which he established himself. A Painted House By JOHN GRISHAM Doubleday Read the Review The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. A Painted House is a 2001 novel by American author John Grisham.

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