All the Children Are Home: A Novel

A sweeping saga in the vein of AskAgain, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzlingtriumph and wrenching heartbreak—from the author of The Orphans at RacePoint.Set in the late 1950s through 1960s in a small town inMassachusetts, All the Children Are Home follows theMoscatelli family—Dahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term fosterchildren Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon—and the irrevocable changes in their lives whena six-year-old indigenous girl, Agnes, comes to live with them.When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a fewcaveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. Aharrowing 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 familycomplete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who hasbeen horrifically abused and neglected, they can’t say no.Six-year-old Agnes Juniper arrives with no knowledge of herNative American heritage or herself beyond a box of trinkets given to her byher 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 resilienceto save themselves and each other. Heartfelt and enthralling, All the Children Are Home isa moving testament to the enduring power of love in the face of devastatingloss. Read more