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Media Type: | Audiobook |
Genre(s): | Literary Short Stories & Anthologies |
Narrator(s): | Full Cast |
ISBN: | 9781666598551 |
Publish Date: | 01/29/2013 |
Run Time: | 7 Hours, 44 Minutes |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Dreamscape Media |
Audiobook
When her iconic novel Baker Towers was published in 2005, it was hailed as a modern classic. Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two world wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding – sometimes cruelly – succeeding generations to the place that made them. A young woman glimpses a world both strange and familiar when she becomes a live-in maid for a Jewish family in New York City. A long-absent brother makes a sudden and tragic homecoming. A solitary middle-aged woman tastes unexpected love when a young man returns to town. With a revolving cast of characters – many familiar to fans of Baker Towers – these stories explore how our roots, the families and places in which we are raised, shape the people we eventually become.