The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks...
Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie.
Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community.
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks...
'His best work... a lyrical, gritty and personal novel' The Times 'A beguiling and gracefully constructed novel' Sunday Times 'John Grisham's pared-down, colloquial prose... is at times reminiscent of Hemingway.
Set in 1952 rural Arkansas during six weeks of a cotton harvest.
... house , Trot had painted the first six boards from the bottom , from the front of the house to the rear , and with my scaffold I was able to reach another three feet above his work . I wasn't sure how I would paint up to the roof , but ...