# A Painted House

**Author(s):** John Grisham
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-painted-house/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, domestic-thriller
**Pages:** 388
**Publisher:** Doubleday
**Published:** Sat Jan 01 2000 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9783550101717
**ISBN-10:** 038550120X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-painted-house

## Description

Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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**Themes:** Forbidden Love