jenzerbenz 's review for:

A Painted House by John Grisham
5.0

This is really Grisham's best book. All the others are fun reads, thrillers I guess, but this stands tall above the rest. The main character is a 9 year old boy growing up on a cotton farm in the South. His family hires on farm help every year to pick the cotton and the descriptions and dialogues between the different farm families and hired help is just fascinating. I started this book on the plane ride from Ohare airport to Phoenix and then finished it the following day.