News from Heaven

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