Jennifer Haigh
Author of Mrs Kimble
About the Author
Jennifer Haigh was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction in 2003. Her other works show more include Baker Towers, which won the 2006 PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, The Condition, and Faith. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Birthdate
- 1968-10-16
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, USA (birth) - Education
- Dickinson College
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Occupations
- novelist
short story writer
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- Works
- 20
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 4,731
- Popularity
- #5,323
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 290
- ISBNs
- 136
- Languages
- 9
- Favorited
- 15
Birdie Kimble has to be one of the most annoying characters I have encountered in all my reading. I'm not sure if Haigh meant for her to come across this way or if she wanted the readers to feel sorry for Birdie because her husband has abandoned her and she just can't cope. I had trouble feeling sorry for the alcoholic mother that neglects her children all because her husband has jumped ship. It happens. You still have to be a mother. Put on your big girl panties and get on with your life.
I liked Joan quite a bit more, but was still amazed by how easily she fell in with Ken. Seems she shouldn't have been taken so easily by him after her past relationships and all that she had been through in her life. It's not as if he was some otherworldly creature capable of hypnotizing these women and making them fall in love with them. He was only a man.
Dinah, I felt sorry for as a wife and a mother. Realizing what her husband was made me feel sorry for her, but ultimately she found her happiness.
All of Ken's children, especially Charlie, I did like and found them all to be well-written characters. The book could've been better, especially if Haigh had given us a reason WHY Ken Kimble did the things he did. Not a great book, not a bad book, but a book that's okay to read if you want to kill some time.… (more)