Books by Claire Keegan
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review 1: What an interesting look into the foster care system. A little girl is taken out of her home and placed with strangers. Her father dropped her off there and she had no idea how long she would be there. She finds warmth and compassion and begins to thrive. One day during a wake sh...
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review 1: I cannot recommend the Irish writer Claire Keegan enough. Foster is a novella that has the heft and satisfaction of a long novel because the writing conveys a felt experience. A child is sent to the home of relatives she doesn't know. It's rural Ireland in the not too distant pa...
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review 1: I was completely enamored of this author after reading her short story "Foster", which was included in a compilation of works featured in the Best American Short Stories 2011. Her writing was so real, her descriptive narrative so effective that I felt as though I was IN the stor...