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Feb 2, 2010 · As in life, nothing in Secrets of Eden is neatly resolved or as clear-cut as it initially seems. When the book ends, you're still left wondering who deserves the label of hero or villain. For this reader, that's part of Bohjalian's genius as a writer.
Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems.
SECRETS OF EDEN Chris Bohjalian Reading Group Guide by Kira Walton A NOTE TO THE READER In order to provide reading groups with the most informed and thought-provoking questions possible, it is necessary to reveal important aspects of the plot of this book—as well as the ending.
The 12th page-turning novel from Chris Bohjalian follows territory familiar to those who know his breakthrough novel “Midwives”: a young mother’s death in a small Vermont town, an investigation...
Feb 12, 2010 · Alice, an attractive and competent woman who nonetheless suffered self-doubts when George railed about her bad cooking or dowdy appearance, indulged in a brief affair with her pastor, Stephen Drew....
Mar 13, 2011 · Stephen, the novel’s first narrator, is so racked with guilt over his failure to save Alice that he leaves town. Soon, he meets Heather Laurent, the author of a book about angels whose own parents’ marriage also ended in tragedy.
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Fans of Bohjalian’s 11 other novels (including Midwives) know to expect the unexpected and, thanks to his creativity and cunning, readers usually get walloped by one heck of a plot twist by book’s end. In Secrets of Eden, the old saw that none of us knows what really goes on in a house when the shades are drawn rings chillingly true.”
