Meet NYT Best Selling Author Christina Baker Kline for a meet and greet signing at Bethany Beach Books on Saturday, May 23rd at 6:30pm!
To attend the event, you must purchase a copy of The Foursome from Bethany Beach Books. Click the link below to pre-order the book.
About Christina:
Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels – Orphan Train, The Exiles, A Piece of the World, The Way Life Should Be, Bird in Hand, Desire Lines, Sweet Water, Orphan Train Girl (middle-grade), Please Don’t Lie (a thriller co-authored with Anne Burt), and the forthcoming The Foursome (5/26). She is the author or editor of five nonfiction books: The Conversation Begins, Child of Mine, Room to Grow, About Face, and Always Too Soon. She is published in 40 countries.
Her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, the Inter-Allied Union Prize of the Cercle Interallie (Paris), and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among other prizes, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities and schools as “One Book, One Read” selections. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, including Stories from Suffragette City and Lolita in the Afterlife.
Christina Baker Kline was born in England and raised in the American South and Maine. She is a graduate of Yale (B.A.), Cambridge (M.A.), and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, NYU, UVA, Drew, and Fordham, where she served as Writer-in-Residence for four years. She was also a Faculty Mentor in the BookEnds intensive novel-writing program at Stony Brook University. She is a recipient of several Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships and Writer-in-Residence Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Kline serves on the Board of Directors of the Authors Guild and Poets & Writers, her most significant professional commitments. She sits on the Advisory Boards of the Montclair Literary Festival, the Kaua’i Writers Conference, and Roots & Wings, and is a member of the Writers Council of the Center for Fiction. In addition, she serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is an Author-Ambassador for Room to Read, a global nonprofit that works to improve literacy and gender inequality.
A resident of New York City and Southwest Harbor, Maine, Kline is married to David Kline and has three sons: Hayden, Will, and Eli.
The Foursome
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives — who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.
When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they’re not just a curiosity—they’re a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now, word has it, they’re looking for wives—and in a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge.
Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins’ fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn’t so sure. When the twins’ lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where everything—including race, class, and gender—is rigidly defined.
Spanning five decades and unfolding against the backdrop of a fractured nation hurtling toward war, The Foursome is both intimate and epic: a story of love and constraint, identity and reinvention. With piercing insight and emotional precision, Kline brings to life a forgotten chapter of American history and the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.