Heat And Light Jennifer Haigh Review

In the spirit of don delillo s underworld and the novels of dana spiotta and rachel kushner jennifer haigh s writing gives full measure to the intimate lives within.

Heat and light jennifer haigh review.

Heat and light by jennifer haigh. Rural pennsylvania doesn t fascinate the world not generally jennifer haigh writes in heat and light but cyclically periodically its innards are of interest. Heretofore i ve been cautiously pro fracking thinking that at long last there is an industry that is bringing jobs to our blighted rust belt. The setting is bakerton pennsylvania the fictional former mining town that was the subject of haigh s elegiac affection in baker s towers 2005.

Jennifer haigh s novel explores the fallout of the natural gas boom in a small pennsylvania town. Jennifer haigh s sixth novel returns to fictional bakerton the setting for her second book baker towers a story of life and death in. It drags and drags and i just don t care what happens to anyone. Haigh who wrote a morally complex narrowly focused book about the hot button issue of child molestation by catholic priests in faith 2011 takes a broader approach in this sprawling thickly populated novel about fracking.

I discovered jennifer haigh a few months ago and heat and light is the third book i ve read. Forty years ago bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed and the town wore away. I discovered jennifer haigh a few months ago and heat and light is the third book i ve read.

Heretofore i ve been cautiously pro fracking thinking that at long last there is an industry that is bringing jobs to our blighted rust belt. Critic maureen corrigan calls heat and light an exquisitely designed semi satirical social novel. Heat light drags. I really did enjoy jennifer haigh s mrs.

Kimble but this is the second book by haigh that i could not get though. Houston power brokers desperate landowners willing to lease the earth under their feet and. Acclaimed new york times bestselling author jennifer haigh returns to the pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel baker towers in this ambitious achingly human story of modern america and the conflicting forces at its heart a bold moving drama of hope and desperation greed and power big business and small town families forty years ago bakerton coal fueled the country.