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Jennifer Haigh

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Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer. Her new novel MERCY STREET takes on the contentious issue of abortion rights, following the daily life of Claudia Birch, a counselor at an embattled women's clinic in Boston.

Her last novel, HEAT AND LIGHT, looks at a Pennsylvania town divided by the controversy over fracking, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Earlier books include the novel FAITH, about a beloved Boston priest accused of a molesting a child in his parish, and THE CONDITION, the story of a woman diagnosed in childhood with Turner's Syndrome.

Haigh's critically acclaimed debut novel MRS. KIMBLE won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 67,234 ratings · 8,935 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	Faith 3.85 avg rating — 14,060 ratings — published 2011 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Kimble 3.68 avg rating — 10,550 ratings — published 2003 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mercy Street 3.61 avg rating — 10,168 ratings — published 2022 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Condition 3.52 avg rating — 10,282 ratings — published 2008 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rabbit Moon 3.75 avg rating — 5,659 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baker Towers 3.75 avg rating — 5,041 ratings — published 2004 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zenith Man 3.43 avg rating — 4,924 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heat & Light 3.73 avg rating — 4,384 ratings — published 2016 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	News from Heaven: Acclaimed Short Stories of Family Life and Redemption in a Small Pennsylvania Town 3.85 avg rating — 1,838 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Vanishes 3.50 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.”
― Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

tags: affection, duration, friendship, life, loyalty

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“The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.”
― Jennifer Haigh, Faith

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“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .”
― Jennifer Haigh, Faith

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Polls

June BoTM Nominations ~ Author First/Last Name or Title Starting with the letter J ~ First poll
Top books move onto final poll!

The Almost Sisters

by Joshilyn Jackson

6 votes, 21.4%

The Last Child

by John Hart

5 votes, 17.9%

Before You Knew My Name

by Jacqueline Bublitz

4 votes, 14.3%

The Lies I Tell

by Julie Clark

4 votes, 14.3%

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

4 votes, 14.3%

The Summer Place

by Jennifer Weiner

3 votes, 10.7%

Jin-Ling's Two Left Feet

by Helen Chen

1 vote, 3.6%

Heat & Light

by Jennifer Haigh

1 vote, 3.6%

Jade Dragon Mountain

by Elsa Hart

0 votes, 0.0%

Whiskey Sour

by J.A. Konrath

0 votes, 0.0%

28 total votes

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