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From your bestselling writer of The Two times Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a book of shattered trust, romantic secrets, and the delicate character of sacrifice.
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and right before going home to the spouse who will destroy her that night time and then photograph himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, seems his trust in God sliding away and it is preserved from despair only by a gathering with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational literature about . . . angels.
Heather survived a years as a child that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she recognizes deeply with Alice’s child, 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 spouse might not exactly have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice experienced secrets only her minister realized.
Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the internal complexities that tag our lives. Once more Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is just what it seems. As one persona remarks, “Believe that no one. Trust no one. Assume our experiences are suspect.”
