A Painted House: A Novel Book cover type:Hardcover That dreadful disaster is averted

That dreadful disaster is averted by his murder

Sara wants two things: to get into her first-choice college and to find true love

Later that night

a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why

New Yorker Emily Jean Barlett

A Painted House: A Novel Book cover type:Hardcover That dreadful disaster is averted#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Until that September of 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 migrant workers and two very dangerous men came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Lukes world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden