TY - BOOK AU - Hall,Meredith TI - Beneficence: a novel SN - 9781567926699 : AV - PS3608.A5474 B46 2020 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Boston PB - David R. Godine, Publisher KW - Bereavement KW - Fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft N2 - "A glorious debut novel by New York Times bestselling memoirist, Meredith Hall. In the years after World War II, the Senter family built an Eden-like life on their isolated dairy farm in rural Maine. When tragedy strikes, the close-knit family is shattered. Each must fight the isolation their own grief and guilt as they attempt to reclaim some semblance of their old life-if they can. Like the best work of Kent Haruf and Marilynne Robinson, Meredith Hall's Beneficence beautifully illuminates the effects of love and loss while exploring the meaning of family, and the possibilities of forgiveness, both of others and ourselves"-- ER -