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A review by isabelh27
Beneficence by Meredith Hall
5.0
Written for Cursor Literary application:
Simple, elegant writing brings to life the individuals in the Senter family, living a largely self-contained life in rural Maine in the 1950s. After a devastating loss, each family member spins away from the connective tissue of their farm, losing one another and themselves in individually held grief before coming back together. I had initially borrowed Beneficence from a library, but almost immediately purchased a copy so that I could write in it, underlining the most poignant of Hall’s beautifully stark descriptions of heartache, anger, forgiveness, and love.
Simple, elegant writing brings to life the individuals in the Senter family, living a largely self-contained life in rural Maine in the 1950s. After a devastating loss, each family member spins away from the connective tissue of their farm, losing one another and themselves in individually held grief before coming back together. I had initially borrowed Beneficence from a library, but almost immediately purchased a copy so that I could write in it, underlining the most poignant of Hall’s beautifully stark descriptions of heartache, anger, forgiveness, and love.