If you missed tonight's live chat with Jennifer Haigh discussing her new book, News from Heaven, you can listen in now! Thanks so much to Jennifer for joining us and to Stephanie for hosting!
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Just a reminder that tomorrow night, Monday, February 4th, we are welcoming back Jennifer
Haigh to Book Club Girl on Air to discuss her interconnected short story
collection, News from Heaven. Check out the reading group guide before the show, and if you haven’t
read it already, start here with an excerpt. During
the live show you can send in questions via the chat function (be sure to register
on the site beforehand - choose the free option) or you can call in and ask Jennifer
a question directly by dialing 347-945-6149. Set your reminder for tomorrow night's show at 7 pm ET here and
return to that same link to listen live tomorrow night!
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Book Club Girl On Air is pleased to welcome back book club favorite Jennifer Haigh, whose previous bestselling books include Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers, The Condition, and Faith. Haigh will be discussing her new literary short story collection, News from Heaven (on sale: Jan. 29) -- a series of interconnected stories that take place in and around the fictional mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, where Haigh’s previous award-winning novel, Baker Towers, was set.
News from Heaven imbues generations of hometown dreamers and their hopes, both realized and not, with a refreshing humanity that is both stark and compassionate. Whether her characters have escaped from small-town life (like the wayward, gambling brother in “A Place in the Sun”) or are resigned to accept it (like the middle-aged, late-bloomer Agnes in “Thrift”), Haigh weaves a beautiful tapestry of ordinary people and ordinary lives.
Early praise for News from Heaven compares her work to the classic short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio:
“The characters in Jennifer Haigh's News From Heaven are so vividly drawn, the inner lives revealed so deftly, with such intelligence and sympathy, that fictional Bakerton, Pennsylvania, takes on the additional weight of, say, Winesburg, Ohio.”-Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls.
We have 10 copies of News from Heaven to give to the first 10 people who comment that they can participate in our show on Monday, February 4th at 7 pm EST.
We look forward to hearing from you during our live book discussion with Jennifer Haigh on Feb. 4th (you can set a reminder for the show at this link as well). You've be able to type in questions during the live show via the chat function (be sure to register on the site beforehand - choose the free option) or you can call in and ask her a question directly by dialing 347-945-6149. If you can’t join us, post your question in the Comments section below, and we’ll ask Jennifer on air.
For more details on Jennifer Haigh, visit her website: www.jenniferhaigh.com.
You can also follow her upcoming blog tour starting Jan. 29, featuring reviews of both works set in Bakerton, PA -- News from Heaven and Baker Towers -- here.
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What a wonderful discussion tonight with Jennifer Haigh about her new novel, now available in paperback, The Condition. Listen in now!
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Just a reminder that on Tuesday, August 18th, we'll be joined by Jennifer Haigh who will talk to us about her acclaimed novel, now in paperback, The Condition. I just loved this book and can't wait for the discussion. Tune in to listen live at 7 pm ET. In preparation, check out the reading group guide and this interview with Jennifer. And if you can't make the live show, but have questions for her, please post them here in the comments.
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I'm thrilled to announce that our second guest for August (following Frances de Pontes Peebles on August 6th discussing The Seamstress) will be bestselling author Jennifer Haigh discussing her acclaimed novel The Condition. I just loved this book, and I also loved Haigh's previous novel Mrs. Kimble. In The Condition Haigh tells the story of the McKotch family:
The first ten people to comment that they'd like to participate in the show on August 18th at 7 pm EST will win a copy of The Condition to read before the show. Set your reminder for the show, browse inside the book and check out the reading group guide. In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome—a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child—eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife, Paulette. Eldest son Billy, a successful cardiologist, lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen—bright and accomplished but hermetic and emotionally aloof—spurns all social interaction until, well into her thirties, she falls in love for the first time. With compassion and almost painful astuteness, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies—the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings.
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