Luke can't help but love the game it's in his blood. That means hiring migrants a truckload (literally!) of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.įor the next six weeks cotton is the sole focus not only on this farm but for everyone in the community, though the Chandler men all manage to make time to hear broadcasts of St. It's September 1952, and the cotton - "waist-high to my father, over my head" says Luke - is ready to pick. Seven-year-old Luke Chandler lives with his parents and grandparents in a farmhouse surrounded by 80 acres of cotton. Inspired by Grisham's own childhood, "A Painted House" takes place in rural Arkansas. In doing so he has produced a story accessible to readers of all ages, with a protagonist as engaging as Billy Coleman in "Where the Red Fern Grows" or (dare I say it?) Scout Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird." With "A Painted House" Grisham tells a tale of rural America a story of youth and ambition, of dreams and aspirations.
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