num_pages: 384
description: A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreakfrom 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 familyDahlia and Louie foster parents and their long-term foster children Jimmy Zaidie and Jonand the irrevocable changes in their lives when a six-year-old indigenous girl Agnes is 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 girls life.Eleven years after they began fostering the Moscatellis are raising three children as their own and 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 cant 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. Before long this stranger in their midst has strengthened the bond in this unusual family showing them how to contend with outside forces that want to tear them apart. Heartfelt and enthralling All the Children Are Home is a moving testament to how love can survive in the face of devastating losses.
language: English
title: All the Children Are Home
publisher: Harper Perennial