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Book Review of A Painted House

A Painted House
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Until that Sept. of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer his 7th year, two groups of migrant workers and two very dangerous men came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. 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 rundown structure in gleaming white. And as young LUke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives and change his fmaily and his town forever.