About Bird in Hand

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 29, 2010)
The accident was just that — an accident. It was dark, it was raining, ALISON had two drinks in her, and the other car ran the stop sign. She just didn’t get out of the way fast enough. But now a little boy — not her own — is dead, and Alison finds herself trapped under the twin burdens of grief and guilt, and 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 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 each day. 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 demure, Claire has just had her first novel published, a thinly-veiled retelling of her childhood in South Carolina (which is also Alison’s, in a sense). But even in the whirlwind of publication, Claire can’t stop wondering if she should leave her husband . . .
BEN, an architect who is thoughtful, kind, and patient. And who wants nothing more than a baby, or two — in fact, exactly the kind of life that Charlie and Alison have . . .
Four people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: everything is about to change.

About Christina

Christina Baker Kline is the author of four novels, Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, and Sweet Water, and is Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University. She lives outside of New York City with her family.
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Christina’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Monday, July 5th: Book Addiction
Wednesday, July 7th: Lit and Life
Tuesday, July 13th: The Winey Mommy
Wednesday, July 14th: Til We Read Again
Monday, July 19th: Coffee Books and Laundry
Wednesday, July 21st: The Lost Entwife
Thursday, July 22nd: Reading at the Beach
Monday, July 26th: The 3 R’s: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness
Tuesday, July 27th: My Random Acts of Reading
Wednesday, July 28th: Staircase Wit
Thursday, July 29th: Books Like Breathing
Date TBD: Sasha and the Silverfish




Til We Read Again,
Bobbie