Ellen Foster

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate, and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, 'The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heartwrenching novel... [Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods South as a Faulkner character—and a good deal more endearing.' An Oprah Book Club selection.