{"product_id":"a-painted-house-john-grisham","title":"A Painted House - John Grisham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThus 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Painted House\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUsed Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"pagesFormat\"\u003e388 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"publicationInfo\"\u003eFirst published March 1, 2001\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42294712959070,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/aph_ad66be65-7e8e-4981-893b-00b6da19c4f0.jpg?v=1766284412","url":"https:\/\/www.brewberrybooks.ca\/products\/a-painted-house-john-grisham","provider":"Brewberry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}