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ID: 504117
Title: Beneficence: A Novel
Author: Meredith Hall
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Rachel Jacobs, Tom Taylorson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:45:48
Language: English
Release date: 11-24-20
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life
Summary:
A familys only hope to heal their shattered lives is that love is stronger than grief
When they meet in the 1930s, Doris and Tups love is immediate. They marry quickly and Doris commits to the only life Tup ever wanted: working the Senter family farm, where his parents and grandparents and great-grandparents are buried under the old pines. Their lives follow the calming rhythms of the landchores in the cow barn, haying the fields, tending their gardensand in this they find immeasurable joy.
Soon their first child, Sonny, is born and Doris and Tup understand they are blessed. More children arriveprecocious, large-hearted Dodie and quiet, devoted Bestonbut Doris and Tup take nothing for granted. They are grateful every day for the grace of their deep bonds to each other, to their family, and to their bountiful land. As they hold fast to this contentment, Doris is uneasy, and confesses, We cant ever know what will come.
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 a dark shadow of grief and guilt. Slowly, the surviving Senters must find their way to forgivenessof themselves and of each other.
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