Mrs. Kimble [Paperback]

“Beautiful, devastating and complex.” —Chicago Tribune

The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author ofBakerTowers,The Condition, andFaith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmaticopportunist: Ken Kimble. Resonating with emotional intensity and narrativeinnovation reminiscent of Ann Patchett’sBelCanto, Barbara Kingsolver’sThe Poisonwood Bible, and Zora Neale Hurston’sTheirEyes Were Watching God, Haigh’sMrs. Kimbleis a timeless story ofgrief, passion, heartache, deception, and the complex riddle of love.

A chameleon, an enigma, all things to all women -- a lifeline to which powerful needs and nameless longings may be attached -- Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: Birdie, his first wife, struggling to hold herself together after his desertion; second wife, Joan, a lonely, tragic heiress who sees her unknowable husband as her last chance for happiness; and Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age.