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News From Heaven: The Bakerton Stories (2013)

by Jennifer Haigh(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0060889640 (ISBN13: 9780060889647)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper

review 1: For a ground-level glimpse of small-town America that’s vanishing before the eyes of its dwindling residents, read this collection of interconnected short stories. The stories take place in Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal town that has been mined out and is now collapsing in on itself, and in various locales where Bakerton residents have gone to build new lives. Although the locale and characters expand on Haigh’s 2005 novel Baker Towers, you don’t need to have read the book to appreciate the stories. (Although you should read Baker Towers – it’s wonderful!)
review 2: Another fascinating book by Jennifer Haigh, one of my favorite contemporary fiction writers. This one is different from her previous four only in that it is made up entirely of short stor... moreies, focusing again on the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania and it's working-class citizens, who were also the subject of her novel Baker Towers. Each story has an element of tragedy and sadness, but there is hope as well. Haigh avoids the cliches that are too easy to fall into when writing about small-town life in America. Every character is totally believable. less

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