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Reviewers and readers have called this a “hauntingly beautiful” novel, “hard to put down,” “a page-turner and an artistic triumph,” “a masterpiece of compassion.” Written by a masterful storyteller, this is a book that illuminates the journey we make through loss to healing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. 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With a rare tenderness and compassion, \u003cem\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/em\u003e shows broken hearts becoming whole as this family reclaims their love and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHere’s what people are saying...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This book will stay with me; I will cherish it.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Christina Baker Kline\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I stand in awe of Meredith Hall and the poetry, honesty, and tenderness of her storytelling.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Joyce Maynard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the best books I've ever read.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Simon Van Booy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A modern American masterpiece.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Dani Shapiro\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As quiet and as profound as the ocean’s depths. 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We highly recommend you add \u003cem\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/em\u003e to your autumn reading list.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Literary North\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“This is a special book… It is a story that lingers, and one that will remain with me for the remainder of my time in this world.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003eRick Heller, \u003cem\u003eBangor Daily News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the family’s grace, fall from grace, and restoration to a state of grace more complicated than the first. . .one of the most beautiful, haunting novels.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eToday’s American Catholic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“A powerful story of love and loss and endurance…\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRemind[s] all readers that love, memories and stories, and indeed language itself, can have transcendent, radiant, beneficent power—even over death.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—New York Journal of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“[A] delicate, poignant novel…Spare but decked with moments of crystalline beauty, the book’s descriptions of farming the Maine countryside are authentic and enchanting. There are no ostentatious displays, and so the novel’s magnificence sneaks up in the same unassuming way that autumn sunlight spills across harvested fields, that sound breaks the silence of a heavy snow, and that the hidden barbs of loss present themselves across the years…[A] gorgeous and moving new novel.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (Starred Review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that lingers, tucking details into its heavy folds…The weight of ache and grace that anchors [Hall’s] writing is still firmly lodged.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—The Arts Fuse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“With lyrical precision, Hall dissects how grief reshapes each [family] member and pushes them into newfound territory. 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Meredith Hall takes on the old universal truths, as Faulkner once put it: love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. I loved this book, and will be thinking about the Senter family for a long time to come.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Dani Shapiro, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“All novels are instruction kits for how they must be read. 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