She lives in Boston.A novel that explores fracking could easily have been boring or polemical, but Jennifer Haigh doesn’t fall into that trap. Haigh's short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. Her short story collection News From Heaven won the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Kimble, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Jennifer Haigh is the author of four previous novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers and Mrs. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America-a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book. Soaring, ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms.
Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling-until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap.
Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers, in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart. Parnassus Books is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Haigh as she discusses and signs Heat and Light.
0 kommentar(er)
