Eden's Privileged Insights: A Novel (Paperback)

Eden's Privileged Insights: A Novel (Paperback)

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A LIFETIME TV MOVIE STARRING JOHN STAMOS is currently under production.

A story of broken confidence, charming insider truths, and the sensitive idea of penance comes from the top-tier author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast.

"There," Alice Hayward says to Reverend Stephen Drew shortly before her immersion and before returning home to the husband who will murder her and then shoot himself later that evening. Drew, haunted by the enigmatic absolution of that short expression, feels his confidence in God getting ceaselessly and is saved from despair simply by a gathering with Heather Laurent, the writer of stunningly fruitful, moving books about . . . holy messengers.

Heather endure a youth that finished in her own folks' homicide self-destruction, so she distinguishes profoundly with Alice's little girl, Katie, offering herself as a guide to the young lady and a shoulder for Stephen - who escapes the platform to be with Heather and check whether there is anything to be rescued from the otherworldly destruction around him.

However, at that point, the State's Attorney starts to presume that Alice's better half might not have offed himself. . .furthermore discovers that Alice had privileged insights just her clergyman knew.

Mysteries of Eden is both an unpleasant abstract spine chiller and a profoundly suggestive demonstration of the inward intricacies that generally mark our lives. Indeed, Chris Bohjalian has given us an arresting, exciting read in which nothing is definitively what it appears. As one person comments, "Trust nobody. Trust nobody. Expect each of our accounts is suspect."

In terms of the author

Maternity specialists, his introduction novel, was a New York Times blockbuster and an Oprah's Book Club choice.

His work has been converted into more than 25 dialects and two times became films (Midwives and Past the Bleachers). He and his significant other, as well as their little daughter, live in Vermont.

Chris Bohjalian's website is www.ChrisBohjalian.com, and he also has a Facebook page.

Applause For A " "unquestionable criterion Read a Spring Book "Weekend Edition of the Today Show.

IndieBound's Indie Next choice for February 2010 was chosen by IndieBound.

Brilliant. . .Enthusiasts of Bohjalian's 11 different books (counting Midwives) know to look for something incredible and, gratitude to his imagination and tricky, perusers generally get destroyed by one amazing unexpected development by the book's end.

Ditty Memmott, USA Today 

"Amazingly composed - distinctive and shocking without being melodramatic....a recognition for Bohjalian's narrating ability."

The Boston Globe

"Dramatic. . .burning. . .Bohjalian has composed an abstract homicide secret that snares perusers early and maintains its mysteries until the end. . .Bohjalian's book is about the force of privileged insights and penance and a warning against leaping to judgment. The individuals who question their confidence, he composes, are once in a while the most grounded among us."

Amy Driscoll of the Miami Herald

"Chris Bohjalian has always had a knack for keeping the reader interested in what he's writing. In his most recent novel, a little Vermont villa has been racked by a grounded couple's obvious homicide self-destruction. Bohjalian portrays the fallout of that fateful night in differed voices, easily slipping into the tops of the shaken nearby minister, the straightforward appointee state lawyer, and the top-rated creator whose own previous attracts her to the location of the crime. . .[A] investigation of blame and distress."

Diversion Weekly 

"Page-turning. . .Bohjalian has a talent for making nuanced, itemized first-individual female characters. . .Mysteries OF EDEN speeds along pleasingly as spine chiller and character study."

From the Seattle Times

"To call this great intellect a secret is akin to referring to the Hallelujah Chorus as a nice song...Bohjalian has composed a holding story that keeps the peruser going pages to discover what truly happened...But there is quite a lot more in this rich story. Bohjalian dives into the important secrets of human life. What is confidence? What is love? Furthermore, who are the holy messengers among us?"

Winston-Salem Journal 

"[A] sensational page-turner...This book will engage you with its anticipation. However, it will likewise make you ponder how privileged insights can be."

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is a newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

"A Chris Bohjalian tale is speckled with mysteries like a loose coin dropped from an adept narrator's pockets...perfect...sorcery is rediscovered in 'Mysteries of Eden.'"

Tom Mayer, Lake City Reporter

"Bohjalian has fabricated a standing on his rich characters and drenching perusers in assorted subjects-homeopathy, basic entitlements activism, birthing assistance, and his most recent without a doubt will not baffle. Alice Hayward and her tyrannical hubby are found dead in their home the morning following their immersion into Rev. Stephen Drew's Vermont Baptist church, obvious homicide self-destruction. The first narrator, Stephen, is plagued with guilt over his failure to save Alice and quits the city. Not long after, he meets Heather Laurent, the writer of an angel's book whose guardians' marriage had ended in tragedy. Delegate state legal advisor Catherine Benincasa, whose doubts are stirred by Stephen's startling flight (and later by inquiries regarding his relationship with Alice), and Heather, who distances herself from Stephen for different reasons and dangers an excursion into her dim past via looking for Katie, the Haywards' little girl, put Stephen's significantly insightful depiction under serious scrutiny. The Haywards' currently stranded 15-year-old little girl plays the last bits of the riddle into play, setting things up for a contacting turn. Aficionados of Bohjalian's more fascinating works will miss gaining some new useful knowledge, yet this is a magnificently human and merciful story."

Distributers Weekly featured and boxed survey

Bohjalian "drops sensation clues...and meshes inconspicuous subtleties of uncertainty and interest into a rigid, read at a time murder secret."

Booklist, featured, and boxed audit

"Bohjalian's most breathtaking achievement to date. . .An unprecedented decision for book clubs, these original arrangements flawlessly with questionable subjects of homegrown maltreatment, confidence, and infidelity without falling back on melodrama. Amazing."

Library Journal, featured audit

"Explicitness and intricacy and. . .a solemn power."

Kirkus Reviews

Acclaim for Skeletons at the Feast

"Dramatic. . .heartfelt. . .a profoundly fulfilling novel."

-- The Washington Post Book World

"Powerful. . .Nerve-racking. . . Bohjalian has given us a significant expansion to the account of World War II."

-The Boston Globe

 "Cunning. . .convincing. . .Deciding who's thinking correctly or wrong is troublesome, and one detects that is only how Bohjalian needs it."

 From the Los Angeles Times

"Blends The Kite Runner's nail-gnawing mercilessness with Anne Frank's journal's impassioned closeness."- Austin American-Statesman.

Acclaim for The Double Bind

"The Double Bind is just one of the most outstanding composed, generally convincing, shrewdly woven books to beauty shelves in years. Perusers will need to start again at the top page following the beautiful shock finishing. It's THAT benefit."

-Related Press

 "Slyly built and wildly felt. . . Bohjalian. . .has intentionally meandered into spine-chiller domain. . .He's playing with our psyches in a manner that ultimately brings out not Fitzgerald but rather that expert of shrewdness, Alfred Hitchcock."

The Miami Herald

"Startling. . .The tree is a remarkable, helpless, convoluted person."

-The Los Angeles Times

Item Details

9780307394989 is the ISBN for this book.

Crown is the distributor.

Pages: 400

English is the language of choice.