Jennifer Haigh

Buttonwood Books & Toys will host “Coffee with the Authors.” Enjoy a continental breakfast while three contemporary authors discuss their latest work. Jennifer Haigh discusses "Faith." Haigh is a bestselling novelist whose previous works include “The Condition,” “Baker Towers,” and “Mrs. ... (more)Kimble” which won the Pen/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Bruce Irving discusses "New England Icons." Irving is an Emmy-award-producer who worked on “This Old House” for seventeen years before starting his own consulting business. Lily Tuck discusses "I Married You for Happiness." Tuck is the author of four previous novels, a biography and a collection of short stories. She won the 2004 National Book Award for her novel “The News from Paraguay.” Reservations and Tickets ($16 per person) are required. Please call Buttonwood at 1-781-383-2665 to reserve your place.

The Condition, by Jennifer Haigh. A family must adjust when one of the children is diagnosed with a condition that will prevent her from ever going through puberty.

The McKotch family's deepest fears, hopes and hostilities collide within the walls of their rambling retreat on Cape Cod in Jennifer Haigh's latest novel. Long divorced, Frank and Paulette hide a mountain of grievances from their three adult children who are busy with crises of their own. As summer approaches, ... (more)events in their lives force them to confront themselves, their choices, and opportunities for reconciliation and love that may still await. Haigh is also the author of Mrs. Kimble.

Author: Jennifer Haigh is a novelist and short story writer. Her first book, Mrs.
Kimble, won the 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her second,
Baker Towers, was a New York Times Bestseller and won the 2006
PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Both ... (more)have
been published in nine languages. Other fiction has been published in Granta,
Ploughshares, Five Points, Good Housekeeping and other places. Born and
raised in western Pennsylvania, Jennifer Haigh is a graduate of Dickinson
College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She now lives in the Boston area
but doesn't get out much. She maintains a large, lively circle of
imaginary friends. For more information on Jennifer Haigh, visit her website at
www.JenniferHaigh.com
Title: The Condition,
$25.95 Hardcover, ISBN 9780060755782, On Sale Date: July 01, 2008.
Compassionate yet unflinchingly honest, witty and almost painfully astute,
The Condition explores the power of family mythologies, the
self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and
mothers and siblings.
What: Jennifer Haigh
will talk about her new book, her life, her work, answer audience questions and
she will autograph copies of her new book purchased from Rainy Day Books,
on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.
When: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 7:00 PM
Where: Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops, 2706 W
53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas 66205
Admission Package (Click on the ADD
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Condition (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author
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The author reads from and signs her new novel. 202-785-1133.

Jennifer Haigh has written a sprawling, emotionally gripping account of one family’s troubled history, enlivened by her formidable intelligence and deep insight into her characters’ hearts and minds."Tom Perrota author of The Abstinence Teacher

"[This book] is unsentimental, compelling, and ... (more)moving, and I urge you to read it."Andre Dubus III author of The Garden of Last Days

Jennifer Haigh's second novel, Baker Towers, won the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her first, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Good Housekeeping, Five Points, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and have been shortlisted for Best American Short Stories. She teaches in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Boston University.