"Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, this novel depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources."--Provided by the publisher.
Record details
ISBN:9780061763298 (hardcover) :
ISBN:9780061763496 (paperback) :
Physical Description:regular print 430 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher:New York :Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,2016.