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Best-Selling Author Jennifer Haigh To Speak At West Hartford Library

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author​ Jennifer Haigh will visit West Hartford for an author talk and reading from her new book.

WEST HARTFORD, CT - Come out to West Hartford on Wednesday, June 7, for an author talk and reading with acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh. The author will speak and read from her novel "Heat and Light."

The reading will be held at 7:15 p.m. in the Noah Webster Library Meeting Room. Registration is suggested by calling the library at 860-561-6990, according to a release.

Guests are asked to park in the nearby Isham Garage and to bring their parking ticket to the event for validation. (To sign up for West Hartford breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

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Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in "Heat and Light."This ambitious and achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart is a moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.

To sign up for this event, please call the reference desk at 860-561-6990. Visit www.jennifer-haigh.com for more information on Haigh.

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