A Painted House is not only an entertaining story of the hardships of a typical rural Arkansas tenant-farmer family struggling to keep afloat. It's also a tale of a young boy, Luke Chandler, and his journey from innocence to experience. During the course of Luke's adventures, John Grisham also shares the struggles that Luke's family encounters as they battle to keep their farm and just break even for the year. Luke discovers secrets that will …showed first 75 words of 499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 499 total…of the natural ability of Grisham to tell a story. Luke may be wiser than his years, but he is still a child. He learns many secrets that no one his age should know. A Painted House is a success. Despite the author being successful on a different type of genre; John Grisham is a great storyteller, capable of holding the readers' attention. It is extremely entertaining for fans of Grisham, new and old alike.