Christina Baker Kline
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Cambridge, The United Kingdom
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Nabokov, Flaubert, George Eliot
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Orphan Train
121 editions
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2013
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A Piece of the World
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2017
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The Exiles
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2020
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The Way Life Should Be
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2007
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Sweet Water
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1993
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Bird in Hand
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2009
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Orphan Train Girl
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2017
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Desire Lines
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1998
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Vivian's Choice: An Expanded Scene from Orphan Train: With an Excerpt from A Piece of the World
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Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother
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“I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”
― Orphan Train
― Orphan Train
“I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.”
― Orphan Train
― Orphan Train
“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.”
― Orphan Train
― Orphan Train
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