Heat and Light: A Novel: 9780061763298: Haigh, Jennifer

Heat and Light is a powerful and thought-provoking novel that explores the complexities of modern America through the lens of a small town in Pennsylvania.

Set against the backdrop of the Marcellus Shale, this book delves into the conflicting forces at the heart of our society - greed, power, big business, and small-town families.

With a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light is both soaring and ambitious, zooming 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.

This is a dispatch from a forgotten America - a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation.

Don't miss out on this gripping and timely novel that will leave you questioning our society's values and priorities.