THE GOLDFINCH

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent fat her, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a w ealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glid...[Read more]