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Faith by jennifer haigh
Faith by jennifer haigh









faith by jennifer haigh

The primary event of the book is a mystery. And Arthur seems unwilling to mount a real defense. Sheila’s other brother, Mike, believes that Art is guilty. Mom fears the worst and just does not want to know. As narrator, Sheila tells us what she gathered from talking with everyone involved in the events. Sheila McGann is the younger, half-sister of Arthur Breen, a popular priest who is accused of inappropriate contact with an eight-year-old boy. The setting is 2002 in Boston, at the height of the terrible revelations about the Church. What happens when one’s foundations crumble? What if the things you believed all your life turn out to have been, well, questionable? Her fiction has been published in eighteen languages. A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she writes frequently for The New York Times Book Review.

faith by jennifer haigh

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.

faith by jennifer haigh

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.

faith by jennifer haigh

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.











Faith by jennifer haigh