Join us on the third Thursday of the month to discuss a dynamic mix of fiction and nonfiction. This month's selection is Foster by Claire Keegan. 

"A young girl is sent to live temporarily with distant relatives while her mother awaits the birth of yet another child. Dropped unceremoniously by her father at the Kinsellas' farmhouse, the girl takes it all in—the gruff barking of a dog, the weeping trees, the shiny windows. It's a far different home than the one she's left. 'Here, there is room to think.' And think our unnamed narrator does, of the way Edna's touch is gentler than her mother's, of the reserved affection John bestows, of the unspoken sadness that pervades their every action and kindness. With a child's open curiosity and inherent acuity, the girl pieces together the Kinsellas' history from the merest glance and through the pointed questions of the villagers."

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