News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories, (Hardcover)

from SqueakyChu

This was a well-written book of short stories about folks who currently live or previously lived in a fictitious coal-mining town in Pennsylvania. I chose this book to read while traveling though the coal mining section of northeastern Pennsylvania. I loved the characters and the stories in this ...

from whitreidtan

Short stories are not generally my milieu but Jennifer Haigh's new collection of interconnected stories tied together both by character and place is magnificent. Her novels, Baker Towers and Faith were wonderfully done so it perhaps shouldn't be a surprise that this sort-of sequel to Baker Towers...

from pdebolt

I generally avoid short stories; however, if they are written by Jennifer Haigh, I will read them as soon as possible. These inter-related, yet stand-alone, stories provide a rich perspective of life in a small mining town in western Pennsylvania in the middle of the 20th century. They encompass ...

from indylrm

Characters overlap in this collection of short stories in an affecting way, because the reader sees the effects of the passage of time on these people who live so close together in this increasingly dysfunctional town. In the first story, a young girl is sent to Manhattan to be a live-in maid for...

from Paul-the-well-read

News from Heaven is a collection of 9 short stories organized around the history of a coal mining town in Pennsylvania. The stories can stand on their own as independent stories but also have enough of the unifying theme about life in Bakerton, the book's imaginary setting, to tie them together. ...