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Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.”—Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh—"a gifted chronicler of the human condition” (Washington Post Book World)—is a tense, riveting story abou...

Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.”—Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh—"a gifted chronicler of the human condition” (Washington Post Book World)—is a tense, riveting story abou...

Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.”—Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh—"a gifted chronicler of the human condition” (Washington Post Book World)—is a tense, riveting story abou...

Siamo in Pennsylvania, una terra che «più di qualunque altra è ciò che giace nel suo sottosuolo». Fino a una quarantina di anni fa gli abitanti di Bakerton hanno vissuto, anche se non proprio prosperato, sull'estrazione del carbon fossile. Chiuse le miniere, la città si è sciolta come neve al sole. Fino a quando una grossa società si accorge che sotto i campi coltivati si estende un enorme giacimento di gas naturale, estraibile con la nuovissi...

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A year in the life of the members of the divided McKotch family, revealing their secrets and their conflicts

One woman's search for the truth after scandal rocks her family, and the explosive family secrets she uncovers, in this complex, moving fourth novel from bestselling and award-winning author Jennifer Haigh.

One woman's search for the truth after scandal rocks her family, and the explosive family secrets she uncovers, in this complex, moving novel from award-winning author Jennifer Haigh.

Boston-based Pangyrus continues to bring an unusually accessible, international and urgent sensibility to the world of literary magazines. In this, its third volume, comics journalism and memoir mix with international political and personal essays, fiction, and a surprising and powerful range of poetry.

It is the spring of 2002, and across Boston, trusted priests have been accused of the worst possible betrayal of the souls in their care. Faith explores the fallout for one devout family. Sheila McGann is a truth-teller, estranged from her complicated, demanding Irish-American family. But when her older brother Art, pastor of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the center of the scandal, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to fight for him. ...

A chameleon, an enigma, all things to all women -- a lifeline to which powerful needs and nameless longings may be attached -- Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: Birdie, his first wife, struggling to hold herself together after his desertion, second wife, Joan, a lonely, tragic heiress who sees her unknowable husband as her last chance for happiness, and Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age.

Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, Birdie, who struggles to hold herself together following his desertion, his second wife, Joan, a lonely heiress shaken by personal tragedy, who sees in Kimble her last chance at happiness, and finally Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman halt his age. Woven throughout is the story of Kimble's son, Charlie, whose life is forever affected by the father he barely rem...

The long-awaited third novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of "Mrs. Kimble" and "Baker Towers" explores the immutable bonds of family witnessed through one turbulent year in the lives of the McKotches.

In a stunning follow-up to her best-selling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh′s second novel, BAKER TOWERS, is a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town, built on coal, a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters′ breakfasts and firemen′s parades. Its children are raised in company houses - three rooms upstairs, three rooms down. Its b...

The Condition" tells the story of a proper New England family that comes apart one fateful summer. To "their dismay, Frank and Paulette McKotch's daughter, Gwen, has been diagnosed with Turner's syndrome--a genetic condition that leaves her trapped forever in the body of a child, and sparks heated dispute between the couple. Twenty years later, their three children--now grown, and each struggling with secret conditions of their own--are still ...

Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas.To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—...

The bestselling author of Faith and The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town and the people who call it home.When her iconic novel Baker Towers was published in 2005, it was hailed as a modern classic—"compassionate and powerful . . . a song of praise for a too-little-praised part of America, for the working families whose toils and constancy have done so much to make th...