News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780060889647)

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.

Author: Jennifer Haigh
ISBN-10: 0060889640
ISBN-13: 9780060889647
Publisher: Harper
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
Award: Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2012 pg. 47
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2012
Library Journal 09/15/2012 pg. 47
Booklist 01/01/2013 pg. 36
Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 01/21/2013
People Weekly 02/04/2013 pg. 52
Shelf Awareness 02/01/2013
Christian Century 04/17/2013 pg. 40
New York Times Book Review 05/12/2013 pg. 34