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All the Children Are Home

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All the Children Are Home

By: Patry Francis
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods, Nora Hunter, Mia Barron, Patrick Zeller
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A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreak - 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 family - Dahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon - 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 loss.

©2021 Patry Francis (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fostering Heartfelt
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Compelling Narrative • Realistic Story • Interesting Plotlines • Distinct Voices
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Very touching story. I found myself experiencing many different emotions throughout the book, and was eager to continue reading. I highly recommend.

Touching

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It was dark and slow paced. Not a bad story but it was hard to keep focused on sometimes and hard to get through

Mostly sad story

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I enjoyed this book very much and I highly recommend it , the performances of the actors brings life to all the characters

The depth of the character development

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The story had so many great plot lines that were all leading to great endings, but it left them all hanging.

Great Potential, but the Ending Fell Flat

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This is a beautifully written piece that is hauntingly realistic and heartbreaking all at the same time. The writing is lyrical making it an easy read that flows well.

Hauntingly Realistic

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It has been a long time since I've read a book that I didn't want to end. All the Children Are Home was such a great book, from the very first page to the last. The characters and their relationships were well developed and each one got equal time. There were happy parts and sad parts, but the love of these foster parents, even given their own issues and trauma, was steadfast. There is always room for one more in this life.

I didn't want it to end!

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The readers had lovely voices to listen to. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the characters in this book.

This was a crazy household but full of love

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This had so many things that I look for and appreciate in a good book - sympathetic, interesting characters, a compelling narrative, and realistic story. But the author left soooo many things unresolved that it was frustrating. It left me feeling disappointed. Narration was good.

Good story but too many unfinished pieces

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I was engrossed in
the lives of these children and the couple who took them in to become a family who loved each other like true siblings and parents. And I hated when a biological parent appeared one day to take back his young son. This shattered their sense of safety. The rest of the book is about each member of the family healing and overcoming fears of their early life. In this way, they became a true family. I was deeply touched by this book, about how deeply humans bond, and how they suffer and are harmed when they are involuntarily separated. it ended without resolving how the little brother was doing. Some of the children wrote to him every day for years, but never heard back. His sisters planned to go across country to visit him when they grew up. I guess that is the way we have to accept that we don’t always resolve even very big unknowns.

All the Children are home

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there’s something genuine and real about the way we carry our grief and baggage and hope together each day of our lives. This story gets to that—how we love our children, or those we claim as our children, every day. Not because it’s glamorous or because we know how they will turn out, but because they are lovable and worth loving. I admire the imperfections and insecurities of the characters, the way we can see their vulnerability. The odds are stacked against nearly every person in the story, but they find their ways through the challenges. It definitely stirred my feelings, and made me think a lot about what it means to be a family.

I really liked it

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