Foster is a stunning little novella, one that deserves the accolades it has received since it was originally published in 2009.
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Clarke Keegan tells the story of a young Irish girl fostered for a single summer by people her parents barely know. From this beginning, Foster manages to simultaneously deliver something of the heartbreak you’re bracing for without surrendering to it. There’s darkness at the edge of the frame, but the story is anything but bleak—instead, it is lit by love and wonder, even more precious for the darkness they drive away.
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At its heart, Foster is a story of how love changes a child, and how the simple fact of love is the foundation on which everything rests.
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Clare Keegan crafts exquisite sentences, and has a gift for understatement. But in her small things, there are great and beautiful things. You’ll read this one with your heart in your throat, and it’s still there when the novella ends.
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(Content: While trying not to spoil anything, readers should know that Foster contains child loss and difficult family environments)
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📝: Clare Keegan
📖: Grove
🧔: Reviewed by Will
Foster is a stunning little novella, one that deserves the accolades it has received since it was originally published i…
