LLF Guest Post: Christina Baker Kline, author of A PIECE OF THE WORLD
Hello, librarians! A Piece of the World, the newest novel by Christina Baker Kline, author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, goes on sale today! A stunning and moving portrait of the resilient young woman who inspired the iconic Andrew Wyeth painting "Christina's World," A Piece of the World was voted by librarians as a LibraryReads pick for February. Please check out Christina's wonderful guest post below about what exactly libraries mean to her. Enjoy!
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WHY LIBRARIES?
Christina Baker Kline
I am descended from a long line of teachers on one side and millworkers on the other. For my mother, going to the library was as routine as going to church in her small North Carolina town. For my father, the first in his north-Georgia family to attend college, stepping into a library for the first time (the first time!) as a freshman at Furman was a magic carpet ride to a world of wonder. My mother, true to her origins, became a teacher; the country boy she married became—to everyone’s surprise—a professor of history who published a dozen books. Is it any surprise that these two very different people—joined by their love of learning, of libraries—raised their four daughters to be a writer, a university fundraiser, a therapist, and a librarian?
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