A Painted House

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In a tense, poignant novel of a boy awakening to his small town's secrets, "John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm" (Entertainment Weekly).

"You can't help thinking of other coming-of-age novels from the South: Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird."-The New York Times Book Review

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, ...