6. So the book isn't a true story? (Christy)
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This article is from the Christy FAQ, by Caroline Kent caro@earthlink.net with numerous contributions by others.
6. So the book isn't a true story? (Christy)
The book is faction- part fact and part fiction. In the prologue of
"Christy" Catherine Marshall writes:
"And suddenly, I understood how the story should be written - through
mother's eyes, as I had seen it all along. Only from the beginning,
my imagination had taken hold of the true incidents and had begun
shaping them so that now, after so many years, I myself scarcely knew
where truth stopped and fiction began. Therefore, though so much of
the story really happened, I would set it down in the form of
fiction."
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