Foster, a novella by award-winning Irish author Claire Keegan, was originally published in 2010 and has been republished in the U.S. in 2022.  An unnamed girl is taken by her father to live with a couple at a farm. The girl likes it better than she like her birth home and its unclear if this arrangement is permanent. There’s also some mystery about the couple. The prose is perfect, both true to the child at that age and with details evoking a lot of story that’s never said out loud. Wonderful writing. Kirkus Reviews calls it gut-wrenching:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/claire-keegan/foster/#:~:text=Like%20all%20of%20Keegan’s%20work,insightful%20observations%20of%20the%20world.