Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
In this fictional account of an unintentional shooting, a Vermont man, who has recently begun hunting, leaves a jammed rifle in the trunk of his car during a family vacation at his ancestral home in New Hampshire, intending to drop it off at a gunsmith’s on his way home. His 12-year-old niece ends up shooting her father at night, thinking she’s shooting at a deer in the garden. Bohjalian is a best-selling author, whose 1997 Midwives announced his arrival on the literary scene.