Book Review: ‘Foster,’ by Claire Keegan - The New York Times
WEBOct 30, 2022 · Keegan’s novella is a master class in child narration. The voice resists the default precociousness, and walks the perfect balance between naïveté and acute emotional intelligence.
With 'Foster,' Claire Keegan asks that readers look outward - NPR
WEBNov 1, 2022 · The nameless narrator of Foster is a little girl whose parents, impoverished Catholic farmers already overwhelmed by too many children and the father's bad habits, farm her out to distant ...
Review: Claire Keegan's slim, ambitious new novella 'Foster' - Los ...
WEBNov 1, 2022 · Review: The biggest, most intricately ambitious little story you’ll read this year. Claire Keegan’s slim novella, “Foster,” published in the U.S. this week, packs an outsized punch ...
Foster by Claire Keegan - Goodreads
WEB4.33. 99,180 ratings12,174 reviews. A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to …
FOSTER - Kirkus Reviews
WEBNov 1, 2022 · Reviews. FICTION. FOSTER. by Claire Keegan ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 2022. A heartbreaking but deeply humane story about parents and children. bookshelf. shop now. A modern Irish classic, first published in 2010, finally makes its way to America.
Small in scope, Claire Keegan's 'Foster' packs an emotional wallop
WEBNov 22, 2022 · This is FRESH AIR. "Foster" is a 2010 novella by Irish writer Claire Keegan with an unusual publishing history. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says the long wait for "Foster" to be...
Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity - The New York Times
WEBNov 5, 2022 · Set in rural Ireland in the early 1980s, it unfolds from the perspective of a young girl who is sent away for the summer to live with a foster family while her mother struggles to care for a...
Review: 'Foster,' by Claire Keegan - Star Tribune
WEBOct 28, 2022 · Foster. By: Claire Keegan. Publisher: Grove, 92 pages, $20. about the writer. FICTION: An impoverished young girl is sent to live with relatives and begins to learn what love is.
Summary and Reviews of Foster by Claire Keegan - BookBrowse
WEBNov 1, 2022 · Coming in at under 130 pages, Foster bears all the hallmarks of a book several times its length: a convincing and original voice, rich character development, an evocative setting, psychological depth, conflict and sensitive treatment of difficult themes like poverty and neglect.
Review of Foster by Claire Keegan - BookBrowse
WEBNov 1, 2022 · Claire Keegan's delicate, heart-rending novella Foster tells the story of a young Irish girl sent to live with relatives for one pivotal summer.
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