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Jennifer Haigh

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Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer. Her new novel MERCY STREET takes on the contentious issue of abortion rights, following the daily life of Claudia Birch, a counselor at an embattled women's clinic in Boston.

Her last novel, HEAT AND LIGHT, looks at a Pennsylvania town divided by the controversy over fracking, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Earlier books include the novel FAITH, about a beloved Boston priest accused of a molesting a child in his parish, and THE CONDITION, the story of a woman diagnosed in childhood with Turner's Syndrome.

Haigh's critically acclaimed debut novel MRS. KIMBLE won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction ...more

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November readings from HEAT AND LIGHT

In the coming month I'll be reading and signing HEAT AND LIGHT in Boston, Cambridge, Austin and Miami. Click for details:

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Average rating: 3.69 · 54,888 ratings · 7,447 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	Faith 3.85 avg rating — 13,657 ratings — published 2011 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Kimble 3.66 avg rating — 9,961 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Condition 3.52 avg rating — 9,861 ratings — published 2008 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mercy Street 3.65 avg rating — 7,619 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baker Towers 3.74 avg rating — 4,743 ratings — published 2004 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heat & Light 3.74 avg rating — 4,082 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zenith Man 3.54 avg rating — 2,922 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories 3.86 avg rating — 1,741 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Vanishes 3.48 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beast and Bird 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
― Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

tags: affection, duration, friendship, life, loyalty

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“The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.”
― Jennifer Haigh, Faith

tags: alternate-truths, families, narrators, perspective, religion, secrets

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“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .”
― Jennifer Haigh, Faith

tags: brothers, companionship, family, growing-up, secrets, sisters

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Polls

July's genre is general/literary fiction and since it's summer, I thought we would read women's fiction with a bit of a lighter fare. This poll will end on June 10th.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

3 votes, 60.0%

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Rebecca Wells

1 vote, 20.0%

Songs Without Words

Ann Packer

1 vote, 20.0%

Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen

0 votes, 0.0%

If You Could See Me Now

Cecelia Ahern

0 votes, 0.0%

Mrs Kimble

Jennifer Haigh

0 votes, 0.0%

5 total votes

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