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Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh Books

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Jennifer Haigh, born in 1968, is an accomplished American novelist known for her insightful exploration of family, society, and moral issues. Her works are characterized by their delicate touch and profound insight. Her notable novels include 'The Book of Emma Comfort' and 'Heat and Light'.

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“It’s clear now, that swanhood didn’t serve her. It only served those around her. Dean Farrell, who took her innocence; the woman called Mei, who sold Lindsey’s beauty and kept the profits. That she, too, was a woman somehow made it worse. All things considered, I am lucky not to be a swan. Objectively, the outcomes are better. Even knowing this, I would happily become one if the chance presented itself.”

Beauty Cursed Grooming Pretty Privilege

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“Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.”

Life Lessons Destiny

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“But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.”

Joy Song Expression

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“Each morning at her keyboard, she performs the miracle of resurrection. Day after day, year after year, she writes Lindsey back to life.”

Love Mother Loss Grief Daughter

Book:Rabbit Moon

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“That she'd never sensed anything amiss between them made her distrust Dean, and men generally. How could you know if they really loved you? If they were lying, how would you ever know?”

Young Adult Cheating Infidelity Boyfriend

Book:Rabbit Moon

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“Lindsey will have a light to guide her to wherever she’s going, a place even farther than America. It’s the only thing she needs now, the only thing Johnny can giver her: a light to lead her home”

Love Death Friendship Afterlife

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“Loving Dean had taught her that jealousy was addictive: the perverse thrill when her worst fears were confirmed, the terrible vindication of learning she’d been right all along. In some demented way, it was deeply satisfying. Jealousy was like outsmarting love.”

Love Marriage Young Adult Jealousy Cheating Infidelity

Book:Rabbit Moon

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“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.”

People Powerful Lessons Affection Loyalty Shelves Fog Consuming Shelf Life

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.”

Stories My Family

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .”

Wanted Voice Familiar Versions

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”

Way Years Humans Heart Littles Art Moving Prayer Perspective Safe Distance Warm Envy Scripture Pity Tides Expansion Human Heart Fascination Contractions Revulsion

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?”

Men Want Humans Made Ends Mother Asks Left Sound Church Too Much Sacrifice Holy Healthy Instinct Good Man Unhealthy Pragmatic Closeness Renunciation

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.”

Writing Reading Fiction Practice Empathy Writing Fiction Reading Fiction

Author:Jennifer Haigh

About the Author

Born: 1968
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 13

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