Apr 2021 Book Program

About the Author

Educator, journalist, and novelist Kristine F. Anderson has spent most of her life in Georgia and knows the setting of her debut novel well from family and friends. She holds a Ph.D. in Communicative Arts from Georgia State University and has taught in high school, at Shorter College, and at the Southern Polytechnic State University, which is now a college within Kennesaw State University. After writing numerous freelance magazine and newspaper articles, Kristine began to work on a novel that had been on her mind for a long time.

At a family cookout in south Georgia some fifteen years ago, an elderly relative told Kristine a disturbing story about a boy born there in the 1930s with Down syndrome. She wrote some notes on napkins, and the story stayed with her. Her interest was strengthened by her work with a school boy with the syndrome. Kristine ultimately…