{"product_id":"heat-and-light-9780061763496","title":"Heat and Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel \u003cem\u003eBaker Towers\u003c\/em\u003e in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart--a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn't count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother's skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling--until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, \u003cem\u003eHeat and Light\u003c\/em\u003e depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders' meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the \"strippins,\" haunting reminders of Pennsylvania's past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America--a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaigh, Jennifer:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJENNIFER HAIGH is the author of the short-story collection \u003cem\u003eNews from Heaven \u003c\/em\u003eand six bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including \u003cem\u003eMrs. Kimble, Faith\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHeat and Light, \u003c\/em\u003e which was named a Best Book of 2016 by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, The Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/em\u003eand NPR. Her books have won the PEN\/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and have been translated widely. She lives in New England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644436222226,"sku":"9780061763496","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9681f892-ee9a-4a49-af12-288fe2c649b5.jpg?v=1733110117","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heat-and-light-9780061763496","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}