![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t know if he had dreams of a life away from the fields. He was determined to be a farmer like his father and grandfather, except that he’d be the first Chandler to own his land. When the hill people his grandfather has hired to help with picking the cotton camp in their front yard where his baseball diamond is instead of in the back where they are supposed to, he is put out with them. Louis Cardinals like his grandfather before him and practices whenever he can. ![]() Luke dreams of playing professional baseball for the St. Seven-year-old Luke Chandler lives with his parents and grandparents on the farm in rural Arkansas. Not a legal thriller like so many of Grisham’s other books, A Painted House is a lyrical depiction of life on a cotton farm during cotton picking season in the year 1952. But at the same time, it felt like a safe place almost all the way through. Fights, murders, illegitimate cousins, naked girls, baseball, floods, and potential crop failures. ![]()
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