"Bearpond Books

MARCH 23 AT 7PM

A BENEFIT NIGHT FOR BWSS(BATTERED WOMEN’S SHELTER AND SERVICES of Washington County)

CHRIS BOHJALIAN / SECRETS OF EDEN

Short Presentation by BWSS

Author Reading & Signing

Chocolate/Dessert reception

Bear Pond Books will donate 20% of book sales that evening to BWSS

SUGGESTED DONATION IS $5.00

With book after book, Chris Bohjalian continues to garner widespread critical acclaim for his realistic and provocative writing. Over the years, he has brought to life midwives, foster children, animal-rights activists, and the homeless—while illuminating the communities they live in and the complicated choices they face. Set in contemporary New England, Bohjalian’s latest novel, SECRETS OF EDEN shines the light on the issue of domestic violence. Written with Chris’s elegant, page-turning prose, the book builds to the sort of ending that left millions of readers of The Double Bind and Midwives speechless and stunned—and hungry for his next novel.

While many of Bohjalian’s novels are issues oriented, SECRETS OF EDEN is the first to emerge from readers’ responses to one of his previous works. The origins of this narrative came from stories Bohjalian heard from women across the country who had read The Double Bind and wanted to know how he had heard their story—because they had never met. Many identified with the attack on Laurel Estabrook in The Double Bind— it felt like what had happened to them.

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, 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.”

Chris Bohjalian is the author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Midwives.