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Loading... Before You Know Kindnessby Chris Bohjalian
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Dad is shot at family cottage by young daughter. Accidental. Book covers the feelings and how the family deals with it. (  ) Linadams19 | Oct 14, 2009 |  awesome book (  ) keirajp | Sep 12, 2009 | A bit of a slow starter, "Before You Know Kindness" explores a rather strained set of family ties following an accidental shooting that leaves one father handicapped. Bohjalian weaves in the issues of vegetarianism and hunting, teen angst and drug use, alongside familial bonds, managing to carefully review and present all sides well. The subject matter is brilliantly unified, but the story doesn't start to pull you along until midway through. It's worth ploughing along, however; Bohjalian doesn't disappoint. (  ) cemming | Aug 31, 2009 | I did not really enjoy this book, though I love most of the authors other work. The story had potential but never quite fulfulled its promise. Also i felt it was written and then edited by some one who loves a thesaurus. It felt forced and I could not get into this book. I finished it, hoping for some redemption, but it never came. (  ) bookmagic | Aug 9, 2009 | I found this novel to be very well formed and entertaining. Two families by grandma Nans in New Hampshire for some vacationing......cousins Willow and Charlotte, a rifle, a shot, lives tortuously messed up, lots of angst and suffering. I liked the ending....the way the story held until the end and all the people who took part in it.....John....Spencer......not eating meats, the FERAL society, taking things too far. ( ) hammockqueen | Jul 3, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Bohjalian's eighth novel, Before You Know Kindness, is a beautifully observed, delicately balanced portrait of a family that could only come from the hands of a tireless craftsman who keeps reaching into his story to straighten the tulips or tuck in a shirttail. It begins with two EMTs leaning over animal rights' activist Spencer McCullough's gushing shotgun wound and winds back through the ordinary days leading up to the extraordinary accident, and then forward again as Spencer and his family come to terms with what has happened. As ambitious as other Bohjalian novels, Before You Know Kindness spirals out to encompass the larger issues of Spencer's political loyalties and the heartless, passionate world of political spin. Some readers may find Bohjalian's style too smooth. Others will relish the completeness of his vision and his obvious tenderness for even the most difficult of his characters. --Regina Marler
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