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Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh is the author of The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, the Saturday Evening Post, and many other publications. She lives in the Boston area.

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Books
Faith Faith
In FAITH, Jennifer Haigh explores the repercussions of one...
The Condition The Condition
The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the...
The Condition The Condition
The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the...

Interview

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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