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All the children are home : a novel / Patry Francis.

ISBN: 9780063065079
ISBN: 006306507X
ISBN: 9780063045453
ISBN: 0063045451
Physical Description: 370 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, [2021]
Copyright: &copy;2021

Summary:

The story of the Moscatelli family - foster parents Dahlia and Louie and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon - and the irrevocable changes in their lives when an indigenous girl 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 limitations of a girl's life. Eleven years after they begin fostering, Dahlia and Louise 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 Jupiter arrives with no knowledge of herself or her Native American heritage beyond a box of trinkets her mother once gave her and dreamlike memories of the sister who was wrenched away from her in foster care. But the Moscatelli family soon learns that this newcomer in their midst possesses an unbroken spirit that will change all of them and inspire everyone she meets.