Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Before You Know Kindness

Before You Know Kindness
reviewed on + 44 more book reviews


On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terrible wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired-accidently?- by his adolescent daughter, Charlotte. With this shattering moment of violence, Chris Bojalian launches the best kind of literate page-turner: suspenseful, wryly funny and humane.