"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 available in book form in the U ...

FOSTER. By Claire Keegan. Grove Press. 128 pages. $20. Claire Keegan’s lovely novella, “Foster,” is an exercise in quietude and controlled revelation. The story begins with a journey. Early ...

Claire Keegan’s novella, “Foster,” follows last year’s beautiful, heart-wrenching “Small Things Like These,” which went on to be short-listed for the Booker Prize. A short novel of ...

When the youthful narrator of Claire Keegan’s newly re-released novella describes the moment that Dave Kinsella, her temporary foster father, ‘puts his arms around me and gathers me into them ...

With 'Foster,' Claire Keegan asks that readers look outward. November 1, 2022 5:16 AM ET. By . ... Book Reviews 'Small Things Like These' add up to a seismic change in 1980s Ireland.

Irish author Claire Keegan is one of those U.S. 'discoveries' who have been known back home for years. With 'Foster,' she earns that acclaim and more. Review: Claire Keegan's slim, ambitious new ...

So far, the only thing lengthy about Ms. Keegan’s work is the time it’s taken for “Foster,” her first novella, to be published in book form in the United States.

Claire Keegan didn’t read much as a child. In her home in southeast Ireland, where her family ran a sheep, pig and cattle farm, there were just a couple of books around the house — an ...