Beneficence
- Author Meredith Hall
- Narrator Cassandra Campbell, Tom Taylorson, Rachel Jacobs
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 24 November 2020
- Run Time 9 hours and 46 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.
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What to expect
A family’s only hope to heal their shattered lives is that love is stronger than grief
When they meet in the 1930s, Doris and Tup’s 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 land—chores in the cow barn, haying the fields, tending their gardens—and in this they find immeasurable joy.
Soon their first child, Sonny, is born and Doris and Tup understand they are blessed. More children arrive—precocious, large-hearted Dodie and quiet, devoted Beston—but 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 can’t 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 forgiveness—of themselves and of each other.
Critics Review
“These voices from the past speak so clearly to our time.”
“Hall’s prose is hewn, sinewy, with moments of electrifying beauty and grace.”
“[A] powerful story of love and loss and endurance…transcendent.”
“Spare but decked with moments of crystalline beauty…gorgeous and moving.”
“Narrators Cassandra Campbell, Tom Taylorson, and Rachel Jacobs channel each member of the close-knit Senter family. Their stunning performances will put listeners in the heart of the family…This beautiful, haunting story, performed with sensitivity, is best enjoyed on audio. Winner of the Audiofile Earphones Award.”
“If the word ‘luminous’ didn’t already exist, you’d have to invent it to describe Meredith Hall’s radiant new novel Beneficence.”
“It instructs us to savor life, to set aside our cold spirit, to notice human beings closely and tenderly, and to believe that telling life plainly is a virtue which can achieve beauty.”
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