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A Literary Fiction Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Multi-Generational,
- New England
This book is for you if you're into...
- Family dramas where one accident changes everything
- Stories digging deep into gun control and animal rights debates
- New England summer settings with simmering tension beneath tradition
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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