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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Jan. 1 1800
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A #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Exiles, Orphan Train, and A Piece of the World, Christina Baker Kline is published in 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 NYT Book Review, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Psychology Today, Poets & Writers, and Salon. Born in England and raised in the American South and Maine, Kline is a graduate of Yale (B.A.), Cambridge (M.A.) and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), where she was a Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing.

Kline lives in NYC and Southwest Harbor, Maine. She serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Fiction (NY), the Jesup Library (Bar Harbor, ME), the Montclair Literary Festival (NJ), the Kauai Writers Festival (HI), and Roots & Wings (NJ), and on the gala committees of Poets & Writers (NY), The Authors Guild (NY) and Friends of Acadia (ME). She is an Artist-Mentor for StudioDuke at Duke University and the BookEnds program at Stony Brook University.

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  • BeachReader
    2.0 out of 5 stars Ho Hum
    Reviewed in Canada on July 31, 2002
    This was a quick afternoon's beach read--I may not have finished it if I had packed another book to read. No great literary value here-- in fact, the story had a lot of holes in it, so I was forced to use my imagination.
    In Bangor, Maine, on the night of her high school graduation in 1986, Jennifer Pelletier, Kathryn Campbell's best (she thought) friend, just disappeared from the face of the earth. She walked away from a bonfire and was never seen again.
    Ten years later, a few weeks before their class reunion, Kathryn, recently divorced, returns to her mother's home in Bangor. She is still haunted by Jennifer's disappearance with its lack of closure and begins to write an article for the local paper, resurrecting the case in the eyes of the town and those who knew the missing girl.
    I DID learn one thing from this book: the meaning of "desire lines". This means the trail through woods or brush, often barely discernible, showing that someone else has walked there before. It is a term used in orienteering and hiking.
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  • Laura Crowson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very well written novel that balances it all
    Reviewed in Canada on July 30, 2003
    This is the second novel I have ready by this author. I enjoyed Sweet Water very much and this novel did not disappoint either. The author does an excellent job of slowly letting the story unravel naturally. Characters are very realistic as are their relationships and the strains between people, even with the passing of time. I found this book very readable and am surprised it is already out of print and didn't really make much of a showing. The writer is extremely talented and the mystery absorbed me as a reader. I reccommend finding a used copy from one of the amazon used booksellers. I'm glad I did.
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  • Phyllis Relyea
    4.0 out of 5 stars who am I ?Where am I going? What am I doing here?
    Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2024
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    all questions being proposed in this novel leading up to a ten year class reunion after one of the gang mysteriously disappeared ten years ago. Kathryn Campbell, newly divorced, returns to live with her mother and investigates the mystery for the local newspaper headed by Jack Ledbetter. Kathryn interviews all the member of the old gang and determines that Rick Hunter, a former HIgh School teacher was involved. the author describes the Maine weather, places, and feelings which provide a desire line to solving her own questions about herself and her good friend, Jennifer, who went missing ten year ago.
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  • LisaD
    5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2016
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    Kathryn, newly divorced, no job, no real direction, goes back home, Bangor, Maine, to figure where her life in headed. After she finds out her class will be holding their tenth HS reunion. She starts researching articles and police reports to see if she can find out what happened to her best friend, Jennifer, who disappeared graduation night ten years earlier. I found the book a joy to read, as well as suspenseful. The relationships while the six were in high school, the belief that they had known the missing Jennifer so well, and the realization as they get together, that they really didn't even know one another as well as they had remembered, kept me reading. In the process of finding out what happened to Jennifer, Kathryn begins to discover who she is.
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  • #EmptyNestReader
    3.0 out of 5 stars a good story although it was a little slow for my tastes. Sill glad that I read it.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022
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    Her absence is a presence, ghostly and haunting, touching all who knew her. It is impossible that she disappeared, inconceivable that she will never return. She is at once nowhere and everywhere, a constant shadow, illusory and insubstantial, her life an unkept promise, a half-remembered dream.”

    After the high school graduation formal ceremony, a close group of newly minted grads meet to hang out. One of them is never seen again. Jennifer left the gathering insisting that she was going and that she would be fine. Why did they let her go? How could they let her slip away? The collective guilt and sense of responsibility for Jennifer’s disappearance has haunted all of the friends in some way for years. As their 10 year H.S. reunion nears everyone knows that "Jennifer’s sudden absence destroyed the fabric that had held everyone together."

    Newly divorced Kathryn is returning home to Bangor, Maine planning to live with her mother until she figures out what to do next. Having avoided ‘home” for 10 years she has a lot of people to reconnect with. "She might be going home, but it felt to her as if she was heading into new and unfamiliar territory.” She had always thought of Jennifer as her best friend and has struggled with her disappearance; she worries that she had failed Jennifer in their friendship. Kathryn agrees to write a piece for the Bangor Newspaper reviewing the facts to the missing persons case to put things in order and hope, "Somebody has to know something…. one of them might be keeping a secret. Who was it? What did that one know? "

    The story moves at a slow pace with much extraneous information. While I didn’t feel like quitting, there were times when I was feeling bored and was calling for the editor to have done his/her job! That being said, I hung in there, I wanted to know what happened to Jennifer and I’m glad I did. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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  • J&B Reviews
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very good read.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2014
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    This is my first book by Christina Baker Kline but it won't be the last. This is a story about a young woman who comes home to Bangor, Maine after losing both her marriage and her job. I don't think that I would be exaggerating if I described her as lost. After arriving in Bangor, Kathryn is asked to write a series of articles for the local newspaper about a girl named Jennifer who left her friends on graduation night to walk home and was never seen or heard from again.

    The person who asks her to write these articles is a former classmate who is now an editor at the newspaper and along with Kathryn was a part of a close group of 6 friends who went through school together. Jennifer was also a part of this group and Kathryn viewed her as her best friend. It was this group that Jennifer left to walk home on graduation night 10 years prior never to be seen again.

    This book held my interest throughout and it didn't escape my attention that it could be said that both women could be deemed as lost. Although I guessed who and how the story would end rather early on it didn't stop me from enjoying the journey the author took me on.

    Some have said that this was very average read but I would disagree. Give this book a try. I think it is well worth your time!
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  • LeAndra Knight
    5.0 out of 5 stars Coming of Age story with a Mystery on the side
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2016
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    I enjoyed this book, which I wasn't sure I would. I normally don't read mysteries, but since I read Orphan Train and enjoyed it immensely, I decided to give this a try by the same author. I'm glad I did. It's almost like a late coming of age story with a mystery wrapped in it. Kathryn has never quite gotten over her best friend's disappearance on the night of their high school graduation. Even if she doesn't realize it, it is stunting her adulthood. The story follows Kathryn's life as 10 years later she is still attempting to carry on her life. I would definitely recommend this book to others.
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