Grisham Archives

Painted House, A

Memories, Cotton, and Murder Author: John Grisham When you think of John Grisham, you think legal thriller, subterfuge, big money vs regular people, schemes and twists and turns galore. You don’t think of a To Kill a Mockingbird style, coming-of-age novel filled with subtle truths about people, about things seen in the depths of a somber night. This, however, is the kind of story A Painted House tells. It starts with Luke Chandler, a seven-year-old rural farm boy whose dreams of big-league baseball are getting him through a grueling summer picking cotton in the Mississippi fields with his family, hired “hill [...]

Rainmaker, The

The Everyman vs Big Insurance Author: John Grisham Rudy Baylor is about to graduate law school. The world is his oyster. He already has a decent job lined up – unlike many of his fellow graduates who are still hitting the pavement, desperate for work in a city already swamped by eager lawyers. The only blights on his perfect horizon are the impending bar exam and his dull senior semester, working with a radical do-gooder professor who is invested in senior law. Said professor is making them take their first swing at lawyering by providing free advice and work to the [...]