Debra M. (dreamer) reviewed on 9/11/2006 + 380 more book reviews

Until that Sept. 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 beautful young woman ignities forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born and someone has began furtively painting the bare clapboards of the chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakeingly, bathing the round down structure in gleaming white. And as young LUke waches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives, and change his family and his town forever.

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