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 [...]
