John Grisham

Boken forteller historien om syv år gamle Luke Chandler, som bor sammen med familien sin ved bomullsmarkene i Arkansas. I seks uker plukkes det bomull, og Luke ser og hører ting en syvåring ikke er forberedt på, og han holder på hemmeligheter som ikke bare truer avlingen, men som vil forandre livet for familien hans for alltid.

a novel

A painted house

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 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 crup".