The Goldfinch By Donna Tartt -little Brown- Hot! Guide

When The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt landed on shelves via in October 2013, the literary world braced for impact. It had been eleven years since Tartt’s last novel, The Little Friend , and twenty-one years since her groundbreaking debut, The Secret History . The pressure was immense. What readers received was a sprawling, 784-page behemoth that refused to be tamed—a Dickensian odyssey set against the backdrop of post-9/11 New York and the glittering underworld of Amsterdam.

He left the book in the press overnight. When he returned the next morning, the woman was waiting. She took the volume, tracing the repaired spine with a gloved finger. "It looks like nothing ever happened to it," she whispered. the goldfinch by donna tartt -little brown-

From this single, traumatizing act, Tartt spins a web that spans decades. Theo is shuffled through the ruins of his life—first to the uptown Manhattan apartment of the wealthy Barbours (family of a friend who died in the blast), then to the dusty, bohemian Las Vegas desert with his estranged, alcoholic father. When The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt landed on