Jennifer Haigh in conversation with Stewart O'Nan

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Join Jennifer Haigh and Stewart O'Nan for a literary discussion celebrating Haigh's new novel, MERCY STREET.

Best-selling author Jennifer Haigh will join Pittsburgh's own Stewart O'Nan in a conversation on writing, story-telling, and fiction that moves us.Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short story collection News from Heaven and six bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including Heat and Light, Faith, and Mrs. Kimble. Her books have won both the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for work by a New England writer. Her short fiction has been published widely, in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in New England.Stewart O’Nan is a native Pittsburgher and an Allderdice grad (Go Dragons!). His novels include Snow Angels, set in Butler, Everyday People, in East Liberty, and Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself, in Highland Park.**The zoom link for this event will be accessible starting 30 minutes prior to the event. From this page click on the "access event button" on the right. You will then be asked to log in to join the event.**<h3><a href="https://shop.riverstonebookstore.com/25-jennifer-haigh-conversation-stewart-onan" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Purchase Jennifer Haigh's and Stewart O'Nan's books now</a></h3>Or bundle your purchase of Mercy Street with your registration to receive a signed copy!For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance.But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia’s days, a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy, an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy’s, she encounters a random assortment of customers, including Anthony, a lost soul who spends most of his life online, chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11—the screenname of Victor Prine, an anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all to protect the unborn. Mercy Street is a novel for right now, a story of the polarized American present. Jennifer Haigh, “an expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters’ humanity” (New York Times), has written a groundbreaking novel, a fearless examination of one of the most divisive issues of our time.

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