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Novelist and short story writer Jennifer Haigh will speak at Beebe Library on Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m. Her first book, Mrs. Kimble, won the 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her second, Baker Towers, was a New York Times bestseller and won the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her latest novel is The Condition.

In her masterful first novel, Mrs. Kimble, Haigh delivers a riveting story of three women who marry the same man. Ken Kimble is a chameleon, a man able to become, at least for a while, all things to all women.

Baker Towers,”is both a family saga and a love letter to our industrial past, to the men and women known as the Greatest Generation; to the vibrant small town life of America’s Rust Belt when it was still shiny and new.

Compassionate yet unflinchingly honest, witty and astute, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies, the self-delusions, denials and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings.

Ms. Haigh’s appearance at Beebe Library is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. For more information, phone 781-246-6334, or go online at wakefieldlibrary.org. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.