Christina Baker Kline Meet & Greet!

Join us on Saturday, May 23rd for a meet & greet event with New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline! You'll get to meet the author, and your ticket includes a signed copy of her newest novel, The Foursome, an exclusive bookmark, and a Browseabout tote. Can't be here in person? We are happy to have her sign and personalize a book for you to be picked up later.

Some things to note:

• Parking meters will be in effect, so plan accordingly!
• It is Memorial Day weekend, so plan accordingly!
• This is a meet & greet only- no author discussion!
• You will not be given a number for the line; it will be on a "first come" basis.
• We will have additional copies of The Foursome , as well as copies of her other titles for purchase, and she will also sign those.
• You do not need to print your ticket; you will be checked in by last name.

About the book

Inspired by the true lives of Chang and Eng Bunker, the world-renowned conjoined twins from Siam, and their marriages to sisters Sarah and Adelaide Yates (Kline’s own distant relatives), this novel reimagines one of the strangest and most revealing family stories in American history — and offers a piercingly intimate perspective on an extraordinary chapter of the past.

Set in the Blue Ridge foothills of northwestern North Carolina in the 19th-century, The Foursome begins with Eng and Chang's arrival, their presence stirring fascination and unease. As the twins build a plantation worked by enslaved labor and begin to introduce themselves to the community, Sarah and her sister Adelaide find themselves drawn into the orbit of these enigmatic men. What follows is an intimate and emotionally charged exploration of their unconventional marriages, as Sarah and Adelaide navigate the complexities of intimacy, judgment, and their own evolving desires.

“Christina Baker Kline is a masterful storyteller with an extraordinary subject in The Foursome. Chang and Eng can literally never be apart, which means that their wives—Addie and her sister Sarah—are also held in an impossible proximity to each other. What a wonderful study of intimacy of all kinds, of love and tolerance, of growing together and growing apart. In short, of what it is to be human.”

—Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello, Beautiful

About the author

A #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Orphan Train, The Exiles, Please Don’t Lie (co-authored with Anne Burt), and the The Foursome, Christina Baker Kline is published in more than 40 countries. Her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, 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.

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