So this is my next selection (don’t know why the image is so fuzzy). Jennifer Haigh was one of the lecturer/instructors at the Wesleyan conference last summer, and I was quite impressed by her insight. But I was wowed by her reading of an excerpt at one of the nightly seminars. Even told Josip Novakovich that he should hire her to do his readings, she was that good a reader. Tone, voice, inflection, eye contact, dramatic pause–this lady could sell any book she reads aloud.
So can she write? I think so. I had started just the first few pages back in June and was immediately drawn into the story. The concept is a good one: Three points of view of a man by his ex wives.
If Miss Haigh weaves a story with the same magic with which she reads aloud, this novel should be a delightful and interesting excursion. Her website is here.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology