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When Christina Haag was growing up on top of the East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was one among the children in her group of prep-school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mom and sister on Fifth Avenue and who took place to have a Secret Service information pursuing him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they acquired both graduated from Brown University and were surviving in NEW YORK, Christina and John were cast within an off-Broadway play jointly. It had been then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, plus they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the general public eye, but also passionate and deeply close, their romance was transformative for both of these. With delightful prose, Haag paints a family portrait of a young man with a massive capacity for love and an adventurous soul that drove him to exist to its fullest. A haunting book, Come to the Border is a long lasting evocation of a period and a place - of the indelible sting of the increased loss of young love, and of the people who condition you and continue to be to you, whether in person or in soul. It is about being young and filled with hope, with all the potential you will ever have as yet unfulfilled, and of approaching of age at an instant in New York's history when metropolis at once kept danger, powerful, and endless options for self-discovery. Almost never has a love tale been informed so beautifully.
