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Foster

by Claire Keegan

Narrator Aoife McMahon

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Length 1 hour 26 minutes

Language English

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“This moving story of a young girl taken to live for a brief time with relatives is the perfect quick listen. There are vast differences between the girl’s crowded child-filled home and the quiet home of her relatives. Equally great are the differences in parenting given by her parents and the couple she comes to stay with. Told in first person by the young girl, this is a tale that tugs at the heartstrings.”
— Nancy • Raven Book Store

Bookseller recommendation

“A beautifully written tale full of insight that made me think back to childhood as a time when we are told how “grown” we’ve become when really it’s about becoming more acquainted with the world around us, the way people act, and deciding for ourselves who we want to be. ”
— pedro • McNally Jackson Books

Summary

An international bestseller and one of the Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a stand-alone book for the first time ever in the US

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.

Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, stand-alone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan's great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.

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