News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh
News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh
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News from Heaven
The Bakerton Stories

Author: Jennifer Haigh

Narrator: Therese Plummer, Alexander Cendese, Cynthia Darlow, Christian Baskous

Unabridged: 15 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/29/2013


Synopsis

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh depicts men and women of different generations shaped by dreams and haunted by disappointments. Janet Maslin of the New York Times has called Haigh's Bakerton stories "utterly, entrancingly alive on the page," comparable to Richard Russo's Empire Falls.

About Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and six bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Kimble, Faith and Heat and Light, which was named a Best Book of 2016 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and have been translated widely. She lives in New England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on January 26, 2022

The news is not always good. Jennifer Haigh, clearly mining a favorite seam, manages to hit the motherlode again in her new tales of Bakerton, PA. Her 2005 novel, Baker Towers, painted a three-decade portrait of the small mining town, from 1944 into the 1970s, focusing on the lives of its residents,......more

Goodreads review by Jill on March 24, 2015

Everyone knows a town like Bakerton. It’s that town you might have driven through – on your way from here to there -- where “the neighbors wanted nothing more from life than they already had: steady work, a new Chevy each year, weekends in front o the television drinking beer and watching ball.” It’......more

Goodreads review by Diane on February 19, 2013

I have one shelf on my many, many bookshelves devoted to my all-time favorite books. Jennifer Haigh's debut novel Mrs. Kimble holds a place of honor there. She is remarkable writer, and her last novel Faith just reaffirmed my belief that she is one of the best fiction writers out there. She recently......more

Goodreads review by Alisa on April 10, 2013

Years ago, long before she became a gifted novelist, I worked with Jennifer Haigh. So when I stumbled across Mrs. Kimble, her first novel, in an airport book store years ago, I had to buy and read it. I've been reading everything she writes ever since. News From Heaven is a collection of short stori......more

Goodreads review by Mary Ann on February 27, 2022

Jennifer Haigh is a favorite of mine, and I've thoroughly enjoyed every novel I've read. I like her complex, multi-layered characters, and I like the somewhat distant, laconic voice in which she tells her stories; there is a non-judgmental quality about it that makes me feel some empathy for even th......more