Kate’s 2¢: “Sweet Water” by Christina Baker Kline

“Sweet Water” by Christina Baker Kline
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…

The story begins with the grandmother, Clyde, telling it like is was and brings her story up-to-date. The granddaughter, Cassandra, begins her story in the present and not only goes backward in her story, but, actually goes back to Tennessee. The tension mounts as the two stories converge on each other.
The reader, Suzanne Toren, did a great job with her voice to let us know when it was Clyde’s story and when it was Cassie’s story.
I wasn’t particularly thrilled with the resolution of the story. I felt it was rather a letdown and anticlimactic.

From her website:
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.
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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, and Salon.
Christina Baker Kline was born in England and raised in the American South and Maine. She 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. A resident of New York City and Southwest Harbor, Maine, she is married to David Kline and has three sons: Hayden, Will, and Eli. She serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Fiction (NYC), the Jesup Library (Bar Harbor, ME), the Montclair Literary Festival (NJ), the Kauai Writers Conference (HI), and Roots & Wings (NJ); and on the gala committees of Poets & Writers and The Authors Guild (NYC) and Friends of Acadia (ME). She is an Artist-Mentor for StudioDuke at Duke University and the BookEnds program at Stony Brook University.
Kline’s latest novel, The Exiles (2020), captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women’s lives—two English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl — in nineteenth-century Australia. A Piece of the World (2017), an instant NYT bestseller, explores the real-life relationship between the artist Andrew Wyeth and the subject of his best-known painting, Christina’s World. Orphan Train (2013), about a little-known but significant piece of American history, spent more than two years on the NYT bestseller list, including five weeks at #1. Orphan Train and A Piece of the World have been optioned for film.
Kline has written six other novels — The Way Life Should Be, Bird in Hand, Desire Lines, Sweet Water, and Orphan Train Girl— and written or edited five nonfiction books: The Conversation Begins (with Christina L. Baker), Child of Mine, Room to Grow, About Face (with Anne Burt), and Always too Soon (with Allison Gilbert)

From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Sweet water DB98509
Kline, Christina Baker. Reading time: 9 hours, 24 minutes.
Read by Suzanne Toren.

Mystery and Detective Stories

Struggling NYC artist Cassie Simon learns that she has inherited sixty acres of Tennessee land from her grandfather, whom she never knew. After moving into the house where her mother died tragically when Cassie was three, Cassie delves into the mystery that surrounds that death. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 1993.
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