Some books need hundreds of pages to move us. Then there’s Foster by Claire Keegan, a short novel that says more in fewer than 100 pages than many books do in five hundred. The story follows a young girl who is sent to stay with relatives for the summer while her mother prepares to give birth and her father remains consumed by his own struggles. She arrives as a stranger in an unfamiliar home, but little by little she discovers a kind of warmth and care she has never truly known. That seemingly small change transforms the way she sees the world—and herself. ...
