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📖 Read on Archive.org (external link, opens in new tab)- Author
- John Grisham
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Pages
- 445
- Series
- Omnibus
- Readers
- 4.0★ (14)
A Painted House
2000 · Book · John Grisham
BoysCotton farmersMigrant laborNineteen fiftiesFarm lifeFiction
Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready. by John Grisham