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Cargando... All the Children Are Home: A Novel (edición 2021)por Patry Francis (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a story of a family in the late 1950s-60s, who foster children since they can't have any biological children. Ma doesn't want any girls, but does get Agnes and Zaidie. Agnes is an Indian girl that no one will adopt. Zaidie and her brother Jon come to the family because their mother died and their father had left. Ma will not leave the house due to trauma experienced when she was in high school. The way this family looks out for each other is heartwarming and the tragic circumstances that brought them all together is truly heartbreaking. I loved how they drew on each other's strength. I was enchanted by Agnes, the abused child who is placed with the family, but most intrigued with Dahlia, the home bound foster mom who has suffered agoraphobia for years. From the beginning you can tell something horrible happened to her in the past. Most women will guess the gist of it but when she finally reveals the details it is both heartbreaking and enraging, Dahlia and her husband Louie have taken in many foster children over the years. Dahlia has tried not to let herself get too attached to them so as not to have a broken heart when it's time for them to leave. She and her husband sometimes appear cold even towards each other but their love for each other and the children is fierce. This was an intense story of neglect and abuse, love and loss and proof that families don't have to share DNA to be real., Though set in the 1950s it somehow felt timeless, in that the foster care system of those days is as broken today. There were a couple of little things that bothered me about what seemed like inaccuracies for the time period for example I am pretty sure the term Bipolar was never used before the 80s, back in the 60s it would have been called manic depression, but the depth of the characters and the way they engaged with each other felt genuine to me. I received an advance copy for review. Originally published at New York Journal of Books: https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/all-children-are-home sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreakâ??from the author of The Orphans at Race Point. Set in the late 1950s through 1960s in a small town in Massachusetts, All the Children Are Home follows the Moscatelli familyâ??Dahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jonâ??and the irrevocable changes in their lives when a six-year-old indigenous girl, Agnes, comes to live with them. When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl's life. Eleven years after they began fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused and neglected, they can't say no. Six-year-old Agnes Juniper arrives with no knowledge of her Native American heritage or herself beyond a box of trinkets given to her by her mother and dreamlike memories of her sister. As the years pass and outside forces threaten to tear them apart, the children, now young adults, must find the courage and resilience to save themselves and each other. Heartfelt and enthralling, All the Children Are Home is a moving testament to the enduring power of love in the face of devastating l No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But it's not all rosy or easy. Each of the children, and Dahlia herself, are dealing with the lingering effects of trauma. Dahlia is agoraphobic because of past violence. Jimmy's father is a criminal. Zadie watched her mother die after she and her young brother were abandoned by their father. And Agnes has lost so much, and endured so much and isn't yet six years old. They build a strong family despite, and because of, their past histories.
The writing is good and the character development is exceptional. The characters all grow and evolve over time. There are moments in their lives that reach out and grab the reader...but no spoilers here. Read it! ( )