American small town life, teeming with immigrants supported by the local mine. We follow five siblings as they grow away from, and return to, their roots during the boom post World War II years. Then comes Vietnam. Through births and deaths, tragedy and success we follow the American dream in an intimate family saga. I loved it. Comparison: Anne Tyler, Elinor Lipman, Carol Shields. Similar this month: Adriana Trigiani, Penny Sumner.
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About Baker Towers
Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its ball club leads the coal company leagues. Its neighbourhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown and Polish Hill.
Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its ball club leads the coal company leagues. Its neighbourhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown and Polish Hill.
For its tight-knit citizens - and the five children of the Novak family - the 1940s will be a decade of tragedy, excitement and stunning change. Both a family saga and a love letter to a time and place long past, Baker Towers is a feat of imagination from a writer of enormous power and skill.
‘Haigh is an astute observer of human nature…In her writing and storytelling style, there are echoes of Anne Tyler’ Irish Examiner
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About Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Dickinson College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded a 2002 James A. Michener Fellowship. Her short stories have been published in Good Housekeeping, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Idaho Review, Global City Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Her first novel, Mrs Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction in the USA. HarperCollins publish Mrs Kimble in May 2004 and will publish Jennifer Haigh’s second novel in spring 2005.
Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its ball club leads the coal company leagues.
Baker Towers features in the following genres: Family Drama, Historical Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
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Baker Towers was written by Jennifer Haigh and published by Harper Perennial an imprint of Harpercollins - Us
Baker Towers has 354 pages
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