Before You Know Kindness

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 27, 2005 - Fiction - 448 pages
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a novel that examines wildly divisive American issues like gun control and animal rights with Chris Bohjalian’s trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill.

For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family—and the convictions that just may pull it apart. 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
9
Section 3
21
Section 4
33
Section 5
41
Section 6
49
Section 7
63
Section 8
69
Section 21
233
Section 22
247
Section 23
265
Section 24
271
Section 25
285
Section 26
291
Section 27
297
Section 28
313

Section 9
79
Section 10
95
Section 11
107
Section 12
123
Section 13
127
Section 14
131
Section 15
153
Section 16
163
Section 17
169
Section 18
181
Section 19
205
Section 20
213
Section 29
329
Section 30
353
Section 31
365
Section 32
381
Section 33
391
Section 34
399
Section 35
405
Section 36
415
Section 37
421
Section 38
423
Section 39
426
Copyright

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Chris Bohjalian
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About the author (2005)

CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three books, including Hour of the Witch, The Red Lotus, Midwives, and The Flight Attendant, which has been made into an HBO Max limited series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; and The Double Bind. His novels Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. He is also a playwright (Wingspan and Midwives). He lives in Vermont and can be found at chrisbohjalian.com or on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Litsy, and Goodreads, @chrisbohjalian

Bibliographic information

TitleBefore You Know Kindness
Vintage Contemporaries
AuthorChris Bohjalian
Editionunabridged, reprint, large print
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005
ISBN0307276945, 9780307276940
Length448 pages
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Fiction / Crime
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Literary
  
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