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Before You Know Kindness
  • Published: 9 August 2005
  • ISBN: 9781400031658
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
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Before You Know Kindness

A Novel

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EBook
27 Sept 2005
Audiobook
5 Oct 2004
Audiobook
8 July 2004
Paperback
9 Aug 2005
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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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  • Published: 9 August 2005
  • ISBN: 9781400031658
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Chris Bohjalian

CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including his most recent The Jackal's Mistress, as well as The Lioness, Hour of the Witch, Midwives, and The Flight Attendant, which has been made into a MAX limited series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include The Red Lotus, 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, X, TikTok, Litsy, and Goodreads.
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Also by Chris Bohjalian

The Amateur
Wingspan
The Flight Attendant
The Guest Room
The Double Bind
Idyll Banter
The Law of Similars
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Praise for Before You Know Kindness

"A modern, compelling drama.... Bohjalian beautifully captures those dizzying moments that follow a tragedy.... In this novel, our eyes are opened to the possibility of redemption, even in these careless times." --San Francisco Chronicle

Gunfire and its aftermath force the survivors to confront a surprisingly complicated question: How best to live? . . . Before You Know Kindness is messier, funnier and, I think, better [than Midwives]." --The New York Times Book Review

"Extraordinary.... Bohjalian has had much success in the past, including a selection as an Oprah Book Club author. Before You Know Kindness is better than anything he's written before." --The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel