The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Some stories are too astonishing to be anything but true. This one? It’s woven right into the author’s own family tree.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline, comes a boldly original reimagining of a forgotten chapter of American history — the tale of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina who married the world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.

When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they’re an instant sensation. Within months, they’ve opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. And word has it, they’re looking for wives.

Enter Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent family brought low by scandal. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees a chance to reclaim her future. Quiet, observant Sarah isn’t so sure. As their lives become entangled, the sisters must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where race, class, and gender are rigidly defined.

Spanning five decades against a nation hurtling toward war, The Foursome is both intimate and epic — a sweeping story of love and constraint, identity and reinvention. Kline writes with piercing insight and emotional precision, breathing life into the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.

This is the kind of historical fiction we love here at the shop. The kind you carry down to a bench on the Marginal Way and lose an entire afternoon inside.

A perfect companion for a rainy coastal day. Pour the tea, settle in, and let these pages sweep you away.

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