![]() The progressive bone disease which makes mobility difficult and brings constant pain scarcely reduces her ceaseless domestic workload. Born in 1893, Christina is a clever schoolgirl whose opportunity to train as a teacher will be obstructed by her parents, who need her to work at home. Meet Christina Olson, “a middle-aged spinster” who narrates her life in segments, dodging back and forth between her origins and childhood and her adult life, all of this material rooted in the large Maine house built by her family, whose early members, relatives of Nathaniel Hawthorne, fled Salem in 1743. The figure at the center of Andrew Wyeth’s celebrated painting Christina’s World has her back to the viewer, but Kline ( Orphan Train, 2013, etc.) turns her to face the reader, simultaneously equipping her with a back story and a lyrical voice. ![]() ![]() The real-life subject of an iconic work of art is given her own version of a canvas-space in which to reveal her tough personality, bruised heart, and “artist’s soul.” ![]()
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