Heat and Light, the sixth book by American author Jennifer Haigh, looks at a community divided by the controversy over fracking. Bakerton is a dying Pennsylvania coal town that’s offered a surprise third act when the natural gas industry comes to town. To drill or not to drill? The question pits husband against wife, neighbour against neighbour, entrepreneur against environmentalist.

“We finally have a novel -- and a novelist -- whose ambitions match the scale of this subject. Heat and Light is the best fracking novel ever.” - Washington Post

Jennifer Haigh's first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. A Chinese translation of Heat andLight will be published in 2017.