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Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh is the author of four critically-acclaimed novels: FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE. Her books have won both the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, and have been published in sixteen... show more

Jennifer Haigh is the author of four critically-acclaimed novels: FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE. Her books have won both the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, and have been published in sixteen languages. Haigh's short stories have appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, One Story, The Saturday Evening Post and many other places, including THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2012. Her latest book, the short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN, returns to the coal mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, the setting of her second book, BAKER TOWERS. Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the 2014 PEN/New England Award, NEWS FROM HEAVEN is now available in paperback. Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Jennifer now lives in Boston.
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Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it 8 years ago
Well done story about a community and the effects fracking has on it whether they leased their land or not. A very timely book especially where I live. So much that happens in the book is happening here and knowing people who have leased their land to the companies doing the fracking, I see the same...
Judy Croome: Author on the Prowl
Judy Croome: Author on the Prowl rated it 8 years ago
Well-written enough to keep me reading until 01h30 in the morning so I could finish it. I guessed early on what had really happened, so perhaps that influenced my feeling of the end being not as good as the beginning and middle of the book. Sheila, the narrator, and her half-brother Art were somewha...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 9 years ago
I really did enjoy Jennifer Haigh's "Mrs. Kimble" but this is the second book by Haigh that I could not get though. Heat & Light drags. It drags and drags and I just don't care what happens to anyone.Taking place in the town of Bakertown, "Heat & Light" showcases the changes the town experiences aft...
Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it 9 years ago
An absorbing tale of lives lived in a mining town, of those who stayed, those who left, and those who came back. The ending was a bit disappointing, with [spoiler] the stories tied up in a tidy package with some happily marrieds, [/spoiler] but the journey was worthwhile.
Bloodorange
Bloodorange rated it 10 years ago
I _really_ enjoyed it, only to realize, a day after I finished it, that the ending - or rather, all of the plot endings - were more or less implausible.
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