TY - BOOK AU - Bohjalian,Chris TI - Before you know kindness: a novel SN - 1400031656 PY - 2005///, c2004 CY - New York PB - Vintage contemporaries KW - Gunshot wounds KW - Patients KW - Fiction KW - Animal rights activists KW - Parent and child KW - Hunters KW - Psychological fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) KW - Vermont N2 - 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. It's a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love. ER -