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Chris Bohjalian, best-selling writer of Midwives, provides his most ambitious and multi-layered book up to now--analyzing extremely divisive problems in today’s America together with his trademark emotional heft and hypnotic storytelling skill.On a warm July evening in New Hampshire a go rings out in a backyard, and a guy drops to the floor, very injured. The injured person is Spencer McCullough, the shot that struck him was fired–accidentally?–by his teenage girl Charlotte. With this specific shattering time of assault, Chris Bohjalian starts the very best type of savvy page turner: suspenseful, wryly humorous, and gentle.