Baker Towers: A Novel - Couverture souple

“The living, breathing organism that is Haigh’s captivating book... [is an] effortlessly haunting story... [Haigh is] an expert natural storyteller.” (New York Times)

“Jennifer Haigh’s ambitious, elegiac second novel, Baker Towers [is]... a rich portrait of place.” (Washington Post Book World)

“An elegant, elegiac multigenerational saga. . . . Almost mythic in its ambition, somewhere between Oates and Updike country, and thoroughly satisfying.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

“[Haigh] writes convincingly of family and small town relations, as well as of the intractable frustrations of American poverty.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Jennifer Haigh stakes a claim for a major breakout.” (Publishers Weekly)

“In clean, authoritative prose, Haigh uncannily injects new life into an era too often entombed by nostalgia.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“A good old-fashioned read... the author deftly evokes the particulars of a time and place.” (Daily News)

“Terrific.” (Harlan Coben, The Birmingham News)

“Haigh’s writing is rich and mellifluous, and her story certainly has an old-fashioned charm and dignity to it.” (The Times (London))

“A work that is quickly boosting [Haigh’s] ascension to the vanguard of 21st century American novelists.” (Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA))