INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Exquisite. A must-read.?C? --Kristin HannahThis paperback edition includes a color reproduction of Andrew Wyeth?COs painting Christina?COs World, along with a Q&A with the author, and a bonus short story, ?C?Stranded in Ice.?C?From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth?COs mysterious and iconic painting Christina?COs World. "Later he told me that he?COd been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn?COt like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won?COt stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world is her family farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. The only daughter in a family of sons, Christina is tied to her home by health and circumstance, and seems destined for a small life. Instead, she becomes Andrew Wyeth?COs first great inspiration, and the subject of one of the best-known paintings of the twentieth century,TaChristina?COs World. As she did in her beloved bestsellerTaOrphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction to vividly reimagine a real moment in history. A Piece of the WorldTais a powerful story ofTathe flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, herTacomplicated relationship to her family and inheritance, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.