The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a
Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind
the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The
cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and
my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were
seldom heard. It could be a good crop. Thus begins the new novel from
John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas.
The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in
the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house
that s never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they
rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of
Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.For six weeks
they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and,
sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no
seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself
keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the
lives of the Chandlers forever. A Painted House is a moving story of
one boy s journey from innocence to experience.
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