Best-selling author, Christina Baker Kline will discuss her latest historical fiction, The Foursome, in conversation with literary expert, Anna Katsavos. The novel is a bold reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives — who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam. When Eng and Chang Bunker arrived in Wilkes County in 1839, they were not just a curiosity but also a sensation. Within months, the twins opened a general store, bought land, and began building a plantation in a community that thrived on gossip. Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, were drawn into their orbit. Spanning five decades, this novel explores themes of race, class, and gender, as well as identity and reinvention. With piercing insight and emotional precision, Kline brings to life a forgotten chapter of American history and the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.
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