The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt • 2013
Devastation Rating
grief loss literary fiction family addiction
Our Take
A boy survives a museum bombing that kills his mother and walks out with a painting, and Tartt follows the damage across twenty years. The novel is enormous and untidy and full of grief that refuses to be elegant. Theo Decker is the person trauma leaves behind when it moves on, and Tartt refuses to look away.
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