“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

“A sparse, breathtaking perfect gem of a novel.”—People

“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

"Narrator Aidan Kelly delivers the story with a rich voice that is both serious and tender." —Page Journeys

"A stunning feat of storytelling and moral clarity." —Kirkus Reviews Starred Review

Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories—which have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories—have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Keegan currently holds the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.