News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories

Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
Short Stories
Number of Pages or Episodes
244 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher
Harper Perennial
City
New York
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Abstract
A collection of 11 interconnected short stories about the Western Pennsylvania citizens of Bakerton, a fiction coal-mining town buffeted by decades of change. Bakerton is inspired by the writer's hometown of Barnesboro, Cambria County.
Author Biography
Jennifer Wasilko Haigh (1968— ) was born to a Ukrainian Catholic family in Cambria County. She earned a BA at Dickinson College and an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Time
1940s-2000s
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