SOURCE: COURANT

Jennifer Haigh has visited The Mark Twain House and Museum before for a reading and signing event. She returns this week as the winner of the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award for her latest novel “Mercy Street.”

Haigh will be the guest of honor at a high-ticket fundraising dinner on Nov. 3. As this year’s American Voice winner, she also receives a $25,000 cash prize underwritten by bestselling thriller writer and Twain House booster David Baldacci and his wife Michelle Collin-Baldacci.

“Mercy Street” is set in and around a women’s health clinic in downtown Boston in 2015. The book’s title refers to a short street near Boston Common that was once part of the red light district known as the Combat Zone, but “Mercy Street” also refers to the popular nickname for the clinic.