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Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer. Her critically acclaimed novel Mrs. Kimble (2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her second, Baker Towers, won the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author.

Haigh was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Dickinson College. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, Ploughshares and many other periodicals. She lives in the Boston area.



I'll be reading from Faith at 7 pm on Wednesday, July 20 Odyssey Books in South Hadley, Massachusetts. If you're in the area, please stop by!
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Faith
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The Condition
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Mrs. Kimble
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“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.”
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“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .”
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