HEC TV: Maryville Talks Books, The Tale of Two Christinas: Christina Baker Kline and Christina Olson 4/2017 (MO, 23 minutes)
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- Let’s talk about A Piece of the World. It takes place around the same time as Orphan Train, right? (8:28)
- The main character in APOTW, people may not know, but they’d actually probably recognize her. Tell me about the main character of this book. (9:15)
- You’ve actually been to the house, correct? When you were 8? (10:15)
- And you had a poster of it on your wall? (10:56)
- You said you used to make up stories about it. Do you remember any of the stories you used to make up about this painting? (11:09)
- As you became an adult and found out the real story of Christina Olson….hers is tragic. (12:00)
- You talk about how she was so very aware of her disability and did her best to not let it show. Why do you think she allowed herself to be so vulnerable to Wyeth’s paintings? (12:53)
- So Andrew Wyeth did have something that he could relate to Christina with, right? (13:47)
- When you read this book knowing that it is a historical novel, you can’t help but wonder, how much of this is true? But the events that happen, that you write about, those are all true? (15:02)
- I’ve heard you say this is the hardest book you’ve ever written. Is that why, because you were embodying someone that actually exists? (16:11)
- I read that you had lots of injuries while writing this. Unrelated, but bizarre, right? (17:20)
- I read that you do idea boards, that you did that with Orphan Train. Did you do that for APOTW?(19:14)
- So [one of your] relatives was on the orphan train, that’s how that book began. This book began because of a painting you knew even as a kid. So my question is, what’s next? What will be your next muse? (20:36)
- How long did A PIECE OF THE WORLD take to write? (21:42)
- Is two years what we should anticipate before the next book? (22:00)
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