Rating 4/5...
I really enjoyed this book. It is not a typical John Grisham legal thriller which is probably why I liked it. Set on a cotton farm in Arkansas in 1952, A painted House is told in the first-person through the eyes of seven year old Luke Chandler. Living in a small, unpainted house with his parents and grandparents, and required to pick cotton for long hours of the day, Luke dreams of better places and bigger things. The yearly hiring of "Hill people" and Mexicans as seasonal pickers disrupts the normal flow of life on the farm. Luke, a curious kid, experiences some misadventures that lead him to keep secrets that are too heavy for a seven year old.
Rating 4/5...
