Bird in Hand, by Christina Baker Kline
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Bird in Hand, by Christina Baker Kline
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It was an accident. It was dark, it was raining, Alison had only had two drinks. And the other car ran the stop sign. But Alison finds herself trapped under the crushing weight of grief and guilt, feeling increasingly estranged from her husband, Charlie, who has his own burdens.
He's in a job he doesn't love so that Alison can stay at home with the kids (and why isn't she more grateful for that?); he has a house in the suburbs and a long commute to and from the city. And the only thing he can focus on these days is his secret, sudden affair with Claire, Alison's best friend.
Bold where Alison is reserved, vibrant where Alison is cautious, Claire has just had her first novel published, a thinly veiled retelling of her childhood in North Carolina. But even in the whirlwind of publication, Claire can't stop wondering if she should leave her husband Ben, an ambitious architect who is brilliant, kind, and meticulous. And who wants nothing more than a baby, or two - exactly the kind of life that Charlie and Alison seem to have.
In each of her novels, Christina Baker Kline has explored how people tell the stories of their lives and what those stories reveal about who they are. As they set out on their individual journeys, Alison, Charlie, Claire, and Ben explore the idea - each in his or her own way - that every moment of loss contains within it the possibility of a new life. Alternating through these four intertwined perspectives, Bird in Hand is a searing novel about friendship, love, marriage, loss, and the choices we make that irrevocably alter everything we believe to be true.
Bird in Hand, by Christina Baker Kline- Amazon Sales Rank: #70682 in Audible
- Published on: 2009-09-25
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 547 minutes
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful. Four People, Two Marriages...This Bird Soars! By Jill I. Shtulman The thing about Bird in Hand is it's so darn page-turning GOOD! It rises far beyond a story of four people and two marriages to explore how our stories, our pasts, and our smallest gestures reveal who we are and what we need --without ever sermonizing. And it reveals how each loss -- no matter how searing -- always carries within it the the possibility of a new life.Christina Baker Kline (how have I not read her before? That's going to be rectified!) focuses on four individuals: Alison, a suburban mother of two who is losing her bearings after a tragic accident that was not her fault and her husband Charlie, who has gradually absented himself from the marriage because of his obsession with her best friend. That friend is Claire, a flighty femme fatale and a debut author who's married to Ben, a kind and meticulous Harvard-educated architect.It could be the stuff of melodrama...but in Kline's capable hands, it is not. In one telling passage, Kline writes about Claire, "It wasn't like Claire had fallen out of love with Ben...it as more like she had drifted, the way you do on a plastic float in a pool with your eyes closed, moving away from the edge without realizing it..." All of these characters in their own way are drifting. They are all living false lives -- some without even realizing it -- and going through the motions.Each of these characters are flesh and blood people, complete with back story that reveals how they came to be who they are and why they make the choices they do. Whether it's Alison breathing in the aloe-scented baby wipes and antibacterial ointment she puts on her young toddler's finger or Ben doing his crossword puzzles to avoid the anxiety of building emotional chaos...whether it's Charlie who wakes up flooded with relief that Alison's parents have arrived, temporarily absolving him from dealing with his wife's mounting guilt and grief or Claire who is dredging up the well of her past in her "fictionalized" book debut, these are people who could be our neighbors...or could be you and me.Ultimately, the characters realizing that "in the fear of losing what you had, you are left with something startling: a depth of empathy, a quivering sensitity to the world around you, and the unexpected blessing of gratitude for what remains." It would be easy to turn this book into a story of "good guys and bad guys." But this is an adult book about a world that is often complex. How well it works!
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful. How have I not heard of her before? By Chad Taylor "Bird in Hand" is, apparently, Christina Baker Kline's fourth novel and if it's any indication, I'm sorely missing out by not having read the previous three. This is a deftly written novel. She handles uncomfortable--at times heart wrenching--topics with aplomb and her characters are absolutely pitch perfect. I will freely admit to opening the book with lower expectations since, as I admit in this review's title, I'd not been familiar with her work before. However, from the books opening hook straight through the interweaving of the characters journeys the author manages to engage and envelope you. Most surprisingly, I found the story to actually be, in a way, cathartic; we all experience the ebb and flow of love, friendship, trust and passion, and "Bird in Hand" has several moments that capture all that pain and excitement and genuine conflicting desire sublimely.
41 of 46 people found the following review helpful. Bird in the Hand By GamingLady Always on the lookout for a new author, I stumbled across Orphan Train, I read it and thought that Christina was a pretty good author......her book was pretty straight forward, and interesting to read. I figured out fairy soon on that she liked to tell the story of a number of people all at the same time but in Orphan Train she kept the lines fairy straight.....you knew who was who.As soon as I finished I ran to find another one by her........and I picked Bird in the Hand.I really, really wanted to like this book. But I didn't.Bird in the Hand involves two couples who are friends and whose lives are interconnected, tragedies happen, and there is fallout. Much like a war. The story line was weak if non-existent....everyone was tiptoeing around the issues, leaving the reader to constantly stop and say "now who was Claire married to ... again"... or Allison was married to Ben or Charlie and having to back track to figure it out. The writer slipped out of the now, back to college days, back to now, back and forth......trying to keep up was a lot of work.The sex scenes seemed forced, like the one preforming the act was actually doing so to punish themselves, I don't know ...each reader may see that differently.When the jig was up and everyone knew what the truth was did they act at all the way a scorned husband or wife would act, nope they just acted like, ok this part of my life is over....so lets get ready for act II. Alison took it way too well considering that she will be left alone to support and raise two children alone while her ex goes off to live a peter pan life with someone else. At any rate, this book just did not work for me. Would I suggest it to a friend? NoWould I read it again? NoI cannot say if I would read another book by this author.
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