Lincoln County Virtual Book Discussion - "A Painted House" (Community Read)

Couldn't make it to the in-house book club? That's perfectly okay! Join us for our first virtual book club hosted by Charlie Simpkins. Charlie is the Special Collections Coordinator with the Mississippi Library Commission.

The link to join will be shared 30 minutes prior to the posted starting time.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 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 run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives — and change his family and his town forever....