CLAIRE KEEGAN was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award--then the world's richest prize for a story--was recently selected by The Times UK as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st century. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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Praise for Small Things Like These:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
An NPR "Books We Love" of 2021 selection
A Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best" of 2021 selection
People Magazine's "Book of the Week"
A Publishers
Weekly "Holiday Gift Guide 2021" Selection

"At the opening of Small Things Like These,
one immediately senses that Keegan is breathing something vital into the
season's most cherished tales, until, as gently as snow falling, her little
book accrues the unmistakable aura of a classic... From the elements of this simple existence in an
inconsequential town, Keegan has carved out a profoundly moving and universal
story...Small Things Like These reminds us that the real miracle in any
season is courage. Get two copies: one to keep, one to give."--Washington Post

"For all her earlier accolades, Small Things
Like These, Keegan's first novel, enters the world this month with the
shocking force of a debut...Over what would amount to a couple of chapters in
another novel, Keegan manages to place her characters and her readers at the
center of an essential human dilemma: Will we turn a blind eye to evil in our
midst, or will we take some action against it, even if it consists of just one
small thing? As Keegan's concise, capacious new book demonstrates, little acts
can lead to real change."--Los Angeles Times

"Keegan's precisely considered details about
character, setting, memory, and dramatic moment create a story you will want to
read again and again. Her deceptively simple language is pitch-perfect."--Boston
Globe

"This exquisite miniature of a novel somehow
defies the gravitational pull of its grim subject to hover in a quotidian,
luminous present. Details materialize with preternatural clarity. The milky
light of a winter afternoon, mist on a river, a woman opening an oven door, a
child taking her father's hand: We see these things and feel their lingering
presence as we are drawn into the life of an unassuming man in an unremarkable
place."--The Wall Street Journal

"Claire Keegan...now gives us her best work yet. Small
Things Like These is a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel
mapping the path of one man's conscience, its torment and vacillation between
two courses of action. Either one bears a price...Spare and potent, this is a
remarkable story." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A sparse, breathtaking perfect gem of a novel."--People

"As in Vermeer's canvases, there's genius in the clarity of finely observed details. An open window, a slant of light, the gesture of a hand: These are the tools that Irish virtuoso Claire Keegan brings to her exquisite short novel...Keegan goes small to go big." --Oprah Daily

"Small
Things Like These is a gem of a slim novel about a family man faced
with a moral decision... a
deeply moving tale."--Associated Press