A Painted House

John Grisham

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • american fiction
  • arkansas, fiction
  • baseball stories
  • bildungsromans
  • boys
  • children's secrets
  • cotton farmers
  • cotton growing
  • domestic fiction
  • familias rurales
  • farm life
  • ficción
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fiction, thrillers, suspense
  • granjeros de algodón
  • large type books
  • mexican american migrant agricultural laborers
  • migrant agricultural laborers
  • migrant labor
  • muchachos
  • new york times reviewed
  • nineteen fifties
  • rural families
  • tenant farmers
  • vida agrícola