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The 52 Book Club's Reading Challenge 2022

2022 Build Your Library Reading Challenge

Thursday, February 15, 2018
Story Behind Famous Wyeth Painting Interesting, But Not Riveting
7:08 AM
(Image from Barnes & Noble)
For Christina Olson, life is small and ordinary. House bound because of a debilitating condition (probably Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease) that twists her limbs into useless twigs, she spends her days keeping house as best she can, sewing dresses for ladies in town, and conversing with her brother, Al. As the only daughter in a family of sons, she's destined to be the eternal housekeeper—but never the owner—of Hathorne House, her ancestral home. Although a young man once offered her the dim hope of a different life, Christina knows she will never leave Cushing, Maine, her tiny piece of the world.

It's hard to describe the plot of A Piece of the World, Christina Baker Kline's newest, because it really doesn't have one. Blending fact and fiction, it tells the story of the real woman who inspired Andrew Wyeth's striking painting, Christina's World. Kline delves into Christina's growing-up years, which were marked by difficulty and pain, as well as her adulthood and her unlikely association with Wyeth. It highlights her fierce independence as well as her undying devotion to her family. What results is a quiet, character-driven novel that is interesting, but not riveting. I ended up liking it, but not loving it.
(Readalikes: Reminds me of Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier)
Grade:
If this were a movie, it would be rated:
for brief, mild language (no F-bombs) and mild sexual content
To the FTC, with love: I bought a copy of A Piece of the World from Amazon with a portion of the millions I make from my lucrative career as a book blogger. Ha ha.
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