Chris Bohjalian's ninth novel, Before You Know Kindness, is set in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. The place holds special meaning for Chris' family and their thinly fictionalized counterparts in the novel. In the book, personal failures turn themselves into cataclysmic errors and the fallout is far reaching within the family. And though Before You Know Kindness explores animal rights, hunting, and gun control, Chris calls the book ?first and foremost a family saga.?
