Bestselling Author To Bring "Foursome" Book Tour To Bucks

DOYLESTOWN, PA — New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline is bringing her national book tour of "The Foursome"— to Doylestown on Friday, May 15.

The Doylestown Bookshop is hosting the visit, which will be held at 7 p.m. at Salem United Church of Christ, 186 East Court Street. The book is scheduled for release on May 12.

The ticketed event includes admission for one person and a hardcover copy of The Foursome. To order tickets, click here.

Christina Baker Kline is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Orphan Train, The Exiles, and A Piece of the World. Her novels have received the New England Society Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and several bookseller awards, among other prizes. Born in England, she was raised in the American South and Maine. She lives in New York City and in Southwest Harbor, Maine.

Her newest book, "The Foursome," is a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in 19th-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives — who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.

When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they’re not just a curiosity — they’re a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now, word has it, they’re looking for wives — and in a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge.

Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins’ fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn’t so sure. When the twins’ lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where everything — including race, class, and gender — is rigidly defined.

Spanning five decades and unfolding against the backdrop of a fractured nation hurtling toward war, "The Foursome" is both intimate and epic: a story of love and constraint, 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.