Item Condition: Collectible; Very Good
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. 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.
For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the
heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes,
each other. 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.
A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's
journey from innocence to experience.