A Piece of the World

by Christina Baker Kline 

A fictionalized version of Andrew Wyeth’s interactions with Christina Olson, subject of Wyeth’s painting, “Christina’s World.”  Christina was a strong, determined woman who didn’t let her physical handicaps prevent her from doing what was necessary to keep her home.

Quotes

“Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family take hold.  They’re passed from generation to generation, gaining substance and meaning along the way.  You have to learn to sift through them, separating fact from conjecture, the likely from the implausible.
  “Here is what I know:  Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones.”    p. 15

“The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.”      p. 276  ¶ last

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