The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch, written with mastery, is a haunted odyssey through modern-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It is among the best books every woman should read in their 30s.

It all starts with a boy. A 13-year-old New Yorker named Theo Decker miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. After his father abandons him, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Befuddled by his strange new Park Avenue home, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that eventually draws Theo into the underworld of art.

As an adult, Theo moves effortlessly between the rich's drawing rooms and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is both alienated and in love, and he finds himself at the center of a dangerously narrowing circle.

The Goldfinch is a novel with incredible narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettable characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while probing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art with a philosopher's calm. It's a stunning, stay-up-all-night triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and fate's ruthless machinations.

Author: Donna Tartt

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