MERCY STREET
For almost a decade, Claudia Birch has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Streets offers more than healthcare; for many, it is a second chance.
HEAT & LIGHT
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.
NEWS FROM HEAVEN
In ten interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition.
FAITH
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
When Sheila McGann learns that her brother Art—the popular, dynamic pastor of a large suburban parish—has been accused of molesting a boy, she returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.
THE CONDITION
Twenty years after Gwen's diagnosis with Turner's syndrome, a genetic condition that has prevented her from maturing physically, all five family members are still dealing with the fallout. Each believes himself crippled by some secret pathology; each feels responsible for the family's demise.
BAKER TOWERS
WINNER OF THE PEN/L.L. WINSHIP AWARD
FOR OUTSTANDING BOOK BY A NEW ENGLAND WRITER
BAKER TOWERS is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to America's industrial past.
MRS. KIMBLE
WINNER OF THE 2004 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION
Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces