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Shaye Areheart Books
February 2010
On Sale: February 2, 2010
384 pages
ISBN: 0307394972
EAN: 9780307394972
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives,
and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith,
intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of
sacrifice."There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen
Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to
the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot
himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that
short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is
saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent,
the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about .
. . angels. Heather survived a childhood that culminated in
her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply
with Alice’s daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor
to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen – who flees the
pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be
salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him.But then the
State's Attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may
not have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice had
secrets only her minister knew.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. As one character
remarks, “Believe no one. Trust no one. Assume all of our
stories are suspect.”
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