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Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh is the author of the New York Times bestseller Baker Towers, winner of the 2006 PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, and Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year. Both novels were number one Book Sense picks. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She lives in the Boston area.
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The Condition
The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the...
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The Condition
The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the...
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Baker Towers
Stanley Novak is a first−generation Polish immigrant. Seeking a...
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Q: What sparked the idea for The Condition? Was it a character, a scene, or something else?
A: This is a hard question to answer—I spent years writing this book, and I'm not altogether sure what came first. It may well have been that house on the Cape.
Q: The Condition is the first of your three novels to use Massachusetts as its primary backdrop. What was it about this story that prompted you to use your home terrain as a setting?
A: Like everything I write, The Condition is...
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