“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
“In her depiction of Bakerton, Pennsylvania’s inhabitants and exiles, Jennifer Haigh has accomplished what James Joyce did in Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio: render a place with such exactitude the landscape, character, and fate are inextricably linked. Haigh is already recognized as one of America’s finest novelists; this collection confirms she is one of our finest short story writers as well.”
— Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of The Cove