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