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 Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons |
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Just a very short novel of 126 pages, but still a really moving and sometimes heartwrenching read.
Eleven year old Ellen narrates the story - there is very little in the way of punctuation but this only adds to the honest of her story. Ellen's mother dies and she is left to manage on her own as her father is a desperate alcoholic who sees Ellen as something he can ridicule and abuse. Ellen moves in with her maternal grandmother who again, like her father, treats her badly.
Finally after being shoved from pillar to post she finds her 'new mama' - a foster mother who Ellen has seen in Church.
Ellen Foster is a fascinating story - although it is obvious she is abused there is no graphic details - this is fiction and nothing like the masses of 'misery memoirs' that are on almost every book shop shelf these days.
Ellen is a simple and honest girl, but obviously full of insight and intelligence. Throughout the novel her enduring love for her black friend Starletta keeps her going through thick and thin.
A beautiful and touching story.
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