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Jul 09, 2017
This beautifully written novel brings to life the woman and place that inspired Andrew Wyeth's painting, "Christina's World". Alternating between Christina's memories of her youth and her life as a middle-aged woman, the story reveals her struggles and triumphs as she manages with limited function in her legs and hands, and how the home that nurtured generations of her family both isolates and frees her. When the painter Andrew Wyeth enters her life, his paintings and perceptions force Christina to see herself and the place to which she belongs in a new way, one that challenges her understanding of her family and her choices in life.