Foster by Claire Keegan

Foster by the Irish author Claire Keegan is the perfect book club read as it is only 62 pages (no one can claim they did not have time to finish it) but provides hours of discussion. The story is deceptively simple. It is summer in rural Ireland; a little girl is taken by her father to live with relatives. And that is it. I do not know how she does it, but in Keegan’s telling there is so much more.

Highly recommend.

WHAT OTHER REVIEWERS SAY

Hilary Mantel: “Foster confirms Clarie Keegan’s talent…every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.”

WHO WROTE IT

Irish author Claire Keegan is the recipient of many prizes including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Edge Hill Prize, and the Davy Byrnes Award. Her works have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Short Stories.

Foster is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland.