Jennifer Haigh

“As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.”

“I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.”

“The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.”

“Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.”