Crooked Steeple Literary Festival presents author Meredith Hall for her historical fiction novel Beneficence, with support from Bards Alley. Beneficence is a literary masterpiece following a family facing a sudden and terrible loss and attempting to find their way back to the goodness and peace they once shared together.

In the years after World War II, the Senter family built an Eden-like life on their isolated dairy farm in rural Maine. They know they are blessed people. When tragedy arrives, everything each member of the family had faith in is shattered. Cast into the dark shadow of grief and guilt, they must find their way to forgive. A glorious debut novel by New York Times bestselling memoirist, Meredith Hall, Beneficence is a study of love, its gifts and its obligations, that will stay with you long after you've reached the last page. Like the best work of Kent Haruf and Marilynne Robinson, Beneficence beautifully illuminates the effects of love and loss, the possibilities of forgiveness, both of others and ourselves.

The event is free to attend, though donations of any amount to the literary festival are welcome on the RSVP page to help support future author conversations. Bards Alley will be on-site selling copies of the book, and Meredith will be signing books after her conversation.