Donna P. reviewed on 2/18/2006 + 8 more book reviews

Until that September in 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of mugrant workers--and two very dangerous men--came throught the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions, A fatherless baby is born,,, and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Like watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives--and change his family and his town forever...

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