After writing four novels, the closest Christina Baker Kline had come to the best-seller list was as a teenage babysitter in Bangor, Maine, more than 30 years ago.In her hometown, she watched Stephen King’s two sons, Owen and Joe, who, she proudly notes, grew up to become novelists.So did Kline, the daughter of two professors at the University of Maine. (Her dad taught
via ‘Orphan Train’ on surprise trip up the best-seller list.