In this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, author Jennifer Haigh reads from her second novel, Baker Towers (William Morrow, 2005), which she characterizes as a family story set in a coal mining town in western Pennsylvania. She describes the circumstances that led her to write the book, which won the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award, and responds to audience questions. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Haigh is currently a faculty member of the Boston University Creative Writing Program.