

The Condition
Author: Jennifer Haigh
Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck
Unabridged: 14 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/01/2008
Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Disabilities
Author: Jennifer Haigh
Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck
Unabridged: 14 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/01/2008
Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Disabilities
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.
Jennifer Van Dyck has starred on and off Broadway, in such films as The Contender and Bullets Over Broadway, and on television in Law & Order and Spin City.
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The flap copy states that the core event in the book is Gwen’s “condition,” but I did not really get that from reading the book. Her medical condition is one of several conditions addressed in the book, emotional conditions, maybe the “human condition.” This is a domestic novel, a multi-generational......more
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