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Book Review of A Painted House

A Painted House
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This was an enjoyable read; the 7-year-old main character Luke is engaging and thoroughly believable, and I was totally hooked on the misadventures of his cotton-farming family. As a transplanted Yankee myself, I liked his take on life in the South, and the simpler times of the 50s.

I would have given it five stars, but I found the ending left loose ends unwrapped, and left me vaguely dissatisfied.