"The story of a redoubtable girl who overcame adversity with humor, spunk, and determination, Kaye Gibbons' first novel is a work of considerable sublety and intellectual sophistication. A terrific book." -Johnathan Yardley Washington Post Book World
"Gibbons' style enhances the novel. It uses flashbacks and Ellen's colorful images to weave the intimate story. The book deals with family relationships, guilt, death, race, and class. Readers will enjoy meeting Ellen and will be sorry to let her go when the book is over." -Melinda L. Franklin
"Ellen Foster is a southern Holdnen Caulfield, tougher perhaps, as funny... A breathtaking first novel." -Walter Percy
"A stunning new writer... The life in this novel, the honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!" -Eudora Welty
"Filled wih lively humor, compassion, and inegrity... Ellen Foster may be the most trustworthy character in recent fiction." -Alice Hoffman The New York Times Book Review
Ellen Foster recieved the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Acadamy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Ellen Foster was also picked as Oprah's book of the month for December!!!
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