Ellen Foster

Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation’s Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perception, humor, and unselfconscious heroism.

“The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!”–Eudora Welty

“A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel.”–Walker Percy.

A Literary Guild Selection.