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Aug 14, 2023
Book Concierge
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Digital Audiobook read by Aoife McMahon.
Facing tough times, a rural Irish family sends their oldest daughter to another community to live with distant relatives she hardly knows. Keegan explores what it means to be family in this short novella. She also deals with grief and the ways we show love without words being said.
Our narrator is the young girl, who is never named, though I loved that the patriarch of her guest family calls her pet names such as “petal.” The Kinsellas are a quiet couple ...more
Facing tough times, a rural Irish family sends their oldest daughter to another community to live with distant relatives she hardly knows. Keegan explores what it means to be family in this short novella. She also deals with grief and the ways we show love without words being said.
Our narrator is the young girl, who is never named, though I loved that the patriarch of her guest family calls her pet names such as “petal.” The Kinsellas are a quiet couple ...more
Sep 23, 2024
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Foster - Claire Keegan
Audio performance by Aoife McMahon
4 stars
I’m not sure how a short story landed on the list of the Times ‘Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century.’ At less than 100 pages, I’m not sure I could even call it a novella. And, that is my only complaint; that it was less than 100 pages. It is such a perfect, poignant story. If only it could have been a chapter of a slightly longer book….
I loved the ending, but I wanted more.
Audio performance by Aoife McMahon
4 stars
I’m not sure how a short story landed on the list of the Times ‘Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century.’ At less than 100 pages, I’m not sure I could even call it a novella. And, that is my only complaint; that it was less than 100 pages. It is such a perfect, poignant story. If only it could have been a chapter of a slightly longer book….
I loved the ending, but I wanted more.
Beautiful. And the audiobook is a must, hearing that Irish Lilt.
This was a short, beautiful, haunting story. It really stays with you. It’s a much about what the author didn’t say as what she did say. I haven’t read many stories like this. You’ll be thinking about it for days.
I would read anything by Claire Keegan. Foster is a short story which tells about a young girl who’s name we never learn. She is taken to live with relatives during one summer, going from a poor, overcrowded house with distant parents to a home which seems to be better off financially and she is an only child and doted on. Keegan packs a lot into her stories and there is a lot to unpack and think about after finishing this book.
I don’t think I was paying good enough attention to the story. After an hour on audio it was over. Good book to reach your reading goal. I think I will go back and read it due to the high 4.32 rating.
Mar 31, 2016
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