The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
4/5
Little, Brown and Company 771 pages October 22, 2013
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the aftermath, he clings to a small, priceless painting — Carel Fabritius's "The Goldfinch." As he grows up, the painting becomes both his burden and his salvation, pulling him into the criminal underworld of art.
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At 771 pages, this is the kind of book Jim can really sink his teeth — er, his lack of teeth — into. Donna Tartt writes with such meticulous detail that it feels like living Theo's chaotic, heartbreaking life right alongside him. The Las Vegas sections with Boris are absolute gold. Sure, it meanders like a worm through particularly interesting soil, but that's the beauty of it. Not every book needs to rush. This one earns every single page.
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