Heat and Light is her most ambitious - and compelling - novel yet. It's a place she's brought to life so scrupulously that she can delve deep, both into the minds and family histories of her mostly working-class characters, as well as into the land itself and the stories it contains. Haigh returned to Bakerton a few years ago in her short story collection, News From Heaven now, in Heat and Light she's paying a more extended visit.įor Haigh, Bakerton is becoming something akin to Faulkner's apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County. She was born in the coal country of Western Pennsylvania and her 2005 best-selling novel, Baker Towers, traced the rise and fall of the fictional coal town, Bakerton, in the years following World War II. Haigh knows a lot about "what lies beneath" in Pennsylvania. "More than most places, Pennsylvania is what lies beneath." That's a line Jennifer Haigh places at the beginning and the end of her latest novel, Heat and Light. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Heat and Light Author Jennifer Haigh
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