The home itself, with its rich past, and Alvaro, then Christina, become Wyeth’s muses – the young artist sees in them something that others have failed to. The main narrative features an aging Christina living with her brother Alvaro in the now crumbling house, the siblings’ daily focal point the visits by artist Andrew Wyeth (based on the real American artist). A descendant of the cursed Salem witch trials judge on her maternal side, and impoverished Swedish farm stock on her father’s, Christina lives in a once-grand farmstead on the coast of Maine. In a Piece of the World, Christina Olson suffers a debilitating degenerative disease that restricts her mobility. The result is her latest book: a sublimely beautiful and deeply moving meditation on the human condition. When the bestselling author of Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline , cast around for the subject of her next novel, inspiration struck in the form of a famous painting by the great American artist, Andrew Wyeth, hanging in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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