A Painted House (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 55 books, including A Painted House, Saturday, October 31 2009.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 55 books, including A Painted House, Sunday, October 18 2009.

Jonathan T edited the quotations of A Painted House Monday, August 24 2009.

• Added a quotation: “She had been raised in a painted house. (End of chapter 2)”Narrator

Shelfari edited the description of A Painted House Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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 two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Painted House Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : John Grisham:

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Painted House Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: John Grisham: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Painted House Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day.