{"product_id":"9780385501200","title":"A Painted House","description":"\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Painted House \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn-sale February 6, 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008524959984,"sku":"9780385501200","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385501200_p0.jpg?v=1763694927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385501200","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}