Before You Know Kindness

by Bohjalian Christopher

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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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  • ISBN10 1400031656
  • ISBN13 9781400031658
  • Publish Date 9 August 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 23 November 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books