News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories
| Title | News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Publication Type | Short Stories |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 244 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Haigh, Jennifer |
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| City | New York |
| Keywords | coal industry; construction industry; farms; firefighters; high school students; Italian Americans; physicians; Polish Americans; priests; Roman Catholics; trade unions; Ukrainian Americans; United Mine Workers |
| 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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