A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreak-from 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 family-Dahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon-and 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 girl's life.
Eleven years after they began fostering, the Moscatellis are raising three children as their own and Dahlia and Louie consider their family...