Involving herself in the daily rhythms of small-town life, Kathryn begins an investigation into her past. A decade after Jennifer walked into the woods alone, Kathryn decides that she must follow her friend’s lead, one last time. Enigmatic and troubled, Jennifer had always depended on Kathryn’s devotion and asked for sacrifices. Jennifer begins to dominate Kathryn’s life, just as she did in high school. Old questions about graduation night surface. When Kathryn returns home, her former classmates are preparing for their ten-year reunion. When she decides to leave her husband, she ships her boxes to her mother’s house in Bangor, Maine.

She has few close friends most people have learned not to depend on her. Ten years after Jennifer’s unexplained disappearance, Kathryn is a grad-school dropout living in Virginia, stuck in a dead-end writing job and marriage.

“I’ll be fine,” Jennifer says, as she walks away from the dying embers and towards the darkness of the woods. On the night of her high school graduation, Kathryn Campbell sits around a bonfire with her four closest friends, including the beautiful but erratic Jennifer. Her articles on the other hand have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Psychology Today, among others.Ī mother to three boys, Kline currently lives with her husband, David, in New York City and Southwest Harbor, Maine. Kline also served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University for four years.Ī recipient of numerous accolades, including the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, Kline’s books have been published in 40 countries. She has taught writing, both fiction and nonfiction, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, NYU, and the University of Virginia.

Christina Baker Kline is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction, women’s fiction and contemporary fiction novels, most notably The Exiles (2020), Orphan Train (2013) and A Piece of the World (2017).īorn in Cambridge, England, and raised in both England and the U.S, Kline holds a B.A from Yale, an M.A from Cambridge, and an M.F.A from the University of Virginia, where she was a Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing.

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