The Goldfinch: A Novel Easter Publisher: Viking (October 15

Publisher: Viking (October 15

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The Goldfinch: A Novel Easter Publisher: Viking (October 15Theo Decker, a 13 year old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws