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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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“Claire Keegan’s short story is enhanced by Aoife McMahon’s exquisite narration. Her soft, melodious accent is the voice of the young, unnamed narrator from an impoverished Irish–Catholic family…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“Keegan’s novella is a master class in child narration. The voice resists the default precociousness, and walks a perfect balance between naivete and acute emotional intelligence.”
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“An immensely powerful snapshot novel.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
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A Time Magazine Pick of the Month
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A Washington Post Pick of the Month
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in Fiction
Foster Listener Reviews
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Karen Buckley, 9/26/2023
About Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan is the author of acclaimed works of fiction, including Small Things Like These, winner of the Orwell Prize and the Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, among many other awards and honors. Her other award–winning works include Antarctica, which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature; Walk the Blue Fields, which won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles; Foster, winner of the Davy Byrnes Award, the world’s richest prize for a short story. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.
About Aoife McMahon
Aoife McMahon, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an Irish actress with extensive experience in theater and television. She won the 2002 Best Actress Gemini Award for Random Passage opposite Colm Meaney. She has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Old Vic and has toured the United Kingdom with Goodnight Mister Tom.