Novelist Chris Bohjalian has written nine novels, including "Midwives," which was an Oprah Book Club selection. His latest is "Before You Know Kindness." It is a family saga that pivots around an ...

For many years, the late columnist Ann Landers promoted an annual Reconciliation Day, a day for people to reach out and extend peace to those with whom they had ...

Chris Bohjalian's unsentimental new novel, "Before You Know Kindness," is the story of three generations of Setons. But the book also delineates the national debate about guns without preaching ...