{"product_id":"foster","title":"Foster","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"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 standalone 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, standalone 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\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePromotional Headline\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGrove Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Keegan\u003c\/b\u003e's works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into thirty languages. \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. \u003ci\u003eWalk the Blue Fields \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e won the Davy Byrnes Award -- the world's richest prize for a short story. \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFoster: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of the Year from NPR, New York Public Library, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePBS Newshour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Times Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of November from \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Claire Keegan's beautiful new novella, \u003ci\u003eFoster, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's work takes me back to when I first experienced the palpable thrill of entering an author's world. 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 \u003ci\u003eFoster, \u003c\/i\u003e except 'Read it.'\" --\u003cb\u003eRon Charles, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's output is scarce and her stories are as spare as they are heartrending, whittled down to the essential. If she has published anything that isn't perfect, I haven't seen it... More than most books four times its size, \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e 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. This is a small book with a miraculously outsized impact.\" --\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly as sad as you imagine it would be, but more stunningly alive than you have any right to expect. 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.\" -- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Enchanting... a study of familial heartache and generosity.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The austere style and measured pacing of \"Foster\" is perfect... [A] matchless novella.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Balancing Keegan's delicate, sparing prose and masterful ear for dialogue with a tale that is almost overwhelming in its tenderness, \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e is a heart-wrenching treasure of a book that only serves to confirm Keegan's place as one of contemporary Irish literature's leading lights.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Best Books to Read this Fall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are in this story, as in all of Claire Keegan's work, layers of nuance and resonance. Every detail has bearing, some quietly salient, others possessing a delayed charge, so that, again and again, the reader feels the sharp thrill of comprehension. A stray heifer, a light at sea, that joke understood, all pregnant tokens of a fully realized universe of feeling. Keegan is the finest writer at work in Ireland today and this brilliant little book is further proof of it.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Foster is an exquisite, tender, and heart-expanding tale, as Keegan creates more magic in 128 pages than others could make in 928 pages.\" --\u003cb\u003eAmazon Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An immensely powerful snapshot novel...this work mines the recesses of human fragility with a compassionate and deft pen, its combination of simple language and sweeping empathy landing with the force of a saga...a rich, compassionate work.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Pristine... Both concise and gut-wrenching. [Keegan's] superficially simple prose persuasively conveys a child's sometimes-innocent but always careful and insightful observations of the world...A heartbreaking but deeply humane story about parents and children.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA gem of a book, to be savored again and again.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Claire Keegan's talent. She creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.\" --\u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As good as Chekhov.\" --\u003cb\u003eDavid Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An exquisitely balanced book about a child sent to stay with relatives for the summer. Keegan is a devastatingly economic writer: all the silent spaces of the novel will break your heart.\" --\u003cb\u003eMaggie O'Farrell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFoster \u003c\/i\u003eputs on display an imposing array of formal beauties at the service of a deep and profound talent... She brings a thrilling synesthetic instinct for the unexpected right word, and exhibits patient attention to life's vast consequence and finality... a high-wire act of uncommon narrative virtuosity.\" --\u003cb\u003eRichard Ford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A thing of finely honed beauty and cumulative power, a story that deals in suggestion, exactitude and telling detail.\" --\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It has beauty, harshness, menace, and the spine of steel worthy of high art . . . Keegan is a realist who has mastered describing the chaos of feeling.\" --\u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A masterly combination of things pregnant and poised, frozen and in flux.\" ―\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan has mastered a style that echoes Seamus Heaney's early poetry and the stories of William Trevor, but which has grown more enclosed and lyrical with each book. The dark humour of the early work has given way to a lush melancholy that has found its perfect length at 88 pages.\" ―\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's lyrical novella was originally a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorke\u003c\/i\u003er short story, but it has gained greatly from this expansion: the narrative breathes along with the child slowly detaching from her cramped, impoverished home and starting to unfurl, leaf-like, in an atmosphere of attentiveness.\" ―\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Captivating...as lyrical as poetry yet so concentrated it's a novel in miniature. A real jewel.\" ―\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A beautifully paced and delicately wrought tale... Claire Keegan has truly inhabited the mind of a child and crafted a story that will stay with you long after the final page has been read.\" ―\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Subtly enlightening... seamlessly atmospheric.\" ―\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Examiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[Keegan] focuses on the eloquence of silence and the intimacy of wordless domesticity... the language is leanly evocative, its smallest details conveying reams about the girl's foster home, a place warm, gleaming and without children.\" ―\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eBloomberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Foster will captivate you.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDazed and Confused\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For all her earlier accolades, \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e, Keegan's first novel, enters the world this month with the shocking force of a debut...Over what would amount to a couple of chapters in another novel, Keegan manages to place her characters and her readers at the center of an essential human dilemma: Will we turn a blind eye to evil in our midst, or will we take some action against it, even if it consists of just one small thing? As Keegan's concise, capacious new book demonstrates, little acts can lead to real change.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's precisely considered details about character, setting, memory, and dramatic moment create a story you will want to read again and again. Her deceptively simple language is pitch-perfect.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This exquisite miniature of a novel somehow defies the gravitational pull of its grim subject to hover in a quotidian, luminous present. Details materialize with preternatural clarity. The milky light of a winter afternoon, mist on a river, a woman opening an oven door, a child taking her father's hand: We see these things and feel their lingering presence as we are drawn into the life of an unassuming man in an unremarkable place.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Claire Keegan...now gives us her best work yet. \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e is a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel mapping the path of one man's conscience, its torment and vacillation between two courses of action. Either one bears a price...Spare and potent, this is a remarkable story.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sparse, breathtaking perfect gem of a novel.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e is a gem of a slim novel about a family man faced with a moral decision...a deeply moving tale.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan captured and affected my whole attention. She draws a web of complicity around the convent's activities that is chillingly mundane and brutally true. These kinds of places existed not just because of the cruelty of the people who ran them, but also because of the fear and selfishness of those who were willing to ignore them. Stunning. Just stunning.\" --\u003cb\u003eCatherine Whelan, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story that reached so deep I felt the characters moving around inside me. This unforgettable novel is a literary masterpiece and Claire Keegan is one of the world's greatest living writers.\" --\u003cb\u003eSimon van Booy, author of \u003ci\u003eNight Came with Many Stars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time. Claire Keegan's sentences make my heart pound and my knees buckle and I will always read everything she writes.\" --\u003cb\u003eLily King, author of \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e, Claire Keegan creates scenes with astonishing clarity and lucidity. This is the story of what happened in Ireland, told with sympathy and emotional accuracy. From winter skies to the tiniest tick of speech to the baking of a Christmas cake, Claire Keegan makes her moments real--and then she makes them matter.\" --\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e is not just about Ireland, it's about the world, and it asks profound questions about complicity, about the hope and difficulty of change, and the complex nature of restitution... A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.\" --\u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror and the Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book that makes you excited to discover everything its author has ever written... Absolutely beautiful.\" --\u003cb\u003eDouglas Stuart, author of \u003ci\u003eShuggie Bain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Marvellous -- exact and icy and loving all at once.\" --\u003cb\u003eSarah Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eGhost Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A true gift of a book... Reading it brings a sublime Chekhovian shock.\" --\u003cb\u003eAndrew O'Hagan, author of \u003ci\u003eBe Near Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2022 pg. 4 (EAN 9780802160140, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/12\/2022 (EAN 9780802160140, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 10\/01\/2022 pg. 23 (EAN 9780802160140, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 11\/11\/2022 pg. 1 (EAN 9780802160140, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/09\/2022 (EAN 9780802160140, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496233206038,"sku":"9780802160140","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780802160140.jpg?v=1783057813","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/foster","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}