“The austere style and measured pacing of ‘Foster’ is perfect… matchless novella.”- Wall Street Journal “Enchanting… a study of familial heartache and generosity.”- Washington Post Its language settles in your belly and then your bones only seconds after it has passed your eyes… Keegan’s world is lush and full, the details delicately made, ever more rewarding and engaging with every read… While the scale of her story is modest - this one small girl, this short stretch of time - the scope of what Keegan can hold inside of it - the ache of living, the flash of seeing finally what we don’t have, the mourning for all we’ll never be - is as big, brash and ambitious as a story might be.”- Los Angeles Times
“ Foster is exactly as sad as you imagine it would be, but more stunningly alive than you have any right to expect. This is a small book with a miraculously outsized impact.”- NPR If she has published anything that isn’t perfect, I haven’t seen it… More than most books four times its size, Foster does several of the things we ask of great literature: It expands our world, diverting our attention outward, and it opens up our hearts and minds. “Keegan’s output is scarce and her stories are as spare as they are heartrending, whittled down to the essential. Her sentences are so artfully honed but so free of artifice they feel as rough and verdant as sprigs of fresh heather… I don’t want to say anything more about Foster, except ‘Read it.’”- Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club “Keegan’s work takes me back to when I first experienced the palpable thrill of entering an author’s world. The voice resists the default precociousness, and walks the perfect balance between naïveté and acute emotional intelligence… Like a great, long Ishiguro novel, Keegan makes us complicit in what her characters want, setting us up for utter heartbreak when they don’t get it.”- New York Times
“Claire Keegan’s beautiful new novella, Foster, is no less likely to move you than any heaping 400-page tome you’ll read this year… Keegan’s novella is a master class in child narration. One of the Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century” A Best Book of the Year from NPR, Electric Literature, PBS NewsHour, and the New York Public LibraryĪ Best Book of November from TIME and Washington Post
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