A Painted House: A Novel#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives — and change his family and his town forever.... Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM! |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 21 |
Section 3 | 32 |
Section 4 | 42 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 65 |
Section 7 | 77 |
Section 8 | 87 |
Section 19 | 218 |
Section 20 | 228 |
Section 21 | 237 |
Section 22 | 249 |
Section 23 | 261 |
Section 24 | 270 |
Section 25 | 280 |
Section 26 | 288 |
Section 9 | 106 |
Section 10 | 120 |
Section 11 | 126 |
Section 12 | 135 |
Section 13 | 144 |
Section 14 | 153 |
Section 15 | 167 |
Section 16 | 176 |
Section 17 | 194 |
Section 18 | 209 |
Section 27 | 297 |
Section 28 | 306 |
Section 29 | 315 |
Section 30 | 324 |
Section 31 | 333 |
Section 32 | 344 |
Section 33 | 358 |
Section 34 | 367 |
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