Describe the relationships between Sheila and her brothers. How do you define faith? What does faith mean to each of the characters, especially the siblings, Art, Sheila, and Mike ? Is this a good title for the novel?Ĥ. What role does religion play in each of the family members' lives? How do their religious beliefs-or lack of them-define who they are? Is religion a solace for the family or a burden? Are there sins or transgressions that are unforgivable?ģ. How do these quotes reflect the novel's themes?Ģ. For the epigraph, Jennifer Haigh uses two quotes, one involving sin, the other about living by the Rule. Her fiction has been published in eighteen languages.1.
A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she writes frequently for The New York Times Book Review. Her short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN won of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her second novel, the New York Times bestseller BAKER TOWERS, won the PEN/L. KIMBLE won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction. Haigh's critically acclaimed debut novel MRS.
Earlier books include the novel FAITH, about a beloved Boston priest accused of a molesting a child in his parish, and THE CONDITION, the story of a woman diagnosed in childhood with Turner's Syndrome. Her last novel, HEAT AND LIGHT, looks at a Pennsylvania town divided by the controversy over fracking, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her new novel MERCY STREET takes on the contentious issue of abortion rights, following the daily life of Claudia Birch, a counselor at an embattled women's clinic in Boston. Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer.
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