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Beneficence: a Novel by Meredith Hall
This is a radiant novel of goodness and love—both its gifts and its obligations. The Senters are a good family torn apart by an unimaginable tragedy that turns the family of five into a family of four. Everything they held faith in is shattered, and three blame themselves for what happened. Although they are numb with grief, the daily demands of life on their Maine farm continue. Consumed by sorrow and guilt, slowly, the surviving family members find their way to forgiveness—of themselves and of each other. As the Boston Globe wrote, “Hall’s prose is hewn, sinewy, with moments of electrifying beauty and grace.”