After a sudden and terrible loss, how does a loving family find
their way back to the goodness and peace they once shared?
Reviewers and readers have called this literary historical novel
"hauntingly beautiful," "a masterpiece of compassion," "a
page-turner and an artistic triumph." Written by a masterful
storyteller, this is a book that illuminates the journey we make
through grief to healing. In the midst of a nearly perfect life,
Doris Senter is thankful but wary. "We can't ever know what will
come," she says. When an unimaginable tragedy turns the family of
five into a family of four, everything the Senters held faith in is
shattered. The family is consumed by sorrow and guilt. Slowly, the
surviving family members find their way to forgiveness-of
themselves and of each other. Few writers know the human heart and
the burden of grief as New York Times bestselling author Meredith
Hall (Without a Map). This is a radiant novel of goodness and
love-both its gifts and its obligations-that will stay with readers
long after the last page. With a rare tenderness and compassion,
Beneficence shows broken hearts becoming whole as this family
reclaims their love and peace. "People stay together, fall apart,
come back together, altered. It is a book about work, about grief,
about thick ongoing love. Hall's prose is hewn, sinewy, with
moments of electrifying beauty and grace."-Boston Globe "One of the
best books I've ever read."-Simon Van Booy "As organically as it
traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of
wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of
the 'vast world of innocence and harm,' not an island beyond
it."-Wall Street Journal "A modern American masterpiece."-Dani
Shapiro "If the word 'luminous' didn't already exist, you'd have to
invent it to describe Meredith Hall's radiant new novel
Beneficence."-Richard Russo "These voices from the past speak so
clearly to our time, at a moment when many of us wonder whether
we'll lose the things that we consider blessings....Beneficence is
a quiet but steady book, one that echoes ancient and important
rhythms."-Washington Post "A quiet gem...hard to put down."-Library
Journal "Hauntingly beautiful, emotionally devastating, and infused
with great compassion."-Kim Barnes "With wisdom and compassion,
Meredith Hall writes about the capacity for atonement. Goodness.
Generosity to see deeply, to live through fear and pain on your
journey toward the awareness of splendor."-Ursula Hegi
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