“Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family take hold. They’re passed from generation to generation, gaining substance and meaning along the way. You have to learn to sift through them, separating fact from conjecture, the likely from the implausible. Here is what I know: Sometimes the least believable stories are the true ones.” With these words Christina Olson introduces herself in A Piece of the World. It is a historical fiction, which plausibly imagines the story of Christina Olson, the […]