Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian
born White Plains, New York, The United States
gender male
genre Literature & Fiction
About this author
Chris Bohjalian is the author of fifteen books, including "The Sandcastle Girls," arriving July 17 from Doubleday.
He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The, Night Strangers, Secrets of Eden, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives.
Chris won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly "Best Book," and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into over 25 languages and three times become movies ("Secrets of Eden," "Midwives," and "Past the Bleachers"). You can see some of the international covers on www.chrisbohjalian.com .
He has written for a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and has been a Sunday columnist for Gannett's Burlington Free Press since 1992. Chris graduated from Amherst College, and lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
born White Plains, New York, The United States
gender male
genre Literature & Fiction
About this author
Chris Bohjalian is the author of fifteen books, including "The Sandcastle Girls," arriving July 17 from Doubleday.
He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The, Night Strangers, Secrets of Eden, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives.
Chris won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly "Best Book," and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into over 25 languages and three times become movies ("Secrets of Eden," "Midwives," and "Past the Bleachers"). You can see some of the international covers on www.chrisbohjalian.com .
He has written for a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and has been a Sunday columnist for Gannett's Burlington Free Press since 1992. Chris graduated from Amherst College, and lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
Before You Know Kindness
Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives, presents his most ambitious and multi-layered novel to date--examining wildly divisive issues in today’s America with his trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill.On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired–accidentally?–by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. With this shattering moment of violence, Chris Bohjalian launches the best kind of literate page-turner: suspenseful, wryly funny, and humane.