“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.” She never comes home and Theo retreats deep into himself. He runs from the building after grabbing The Goldfinch and finds his way home, the place he was supposed to meet his mother in an emergency. He finds a dying old man who gives him a ring and an address, but he can’t find his mother.
When a home-grown terrorist bomb explodes, Theo wakes up in the rubble confused and disoriented. One of her favorite paintings was on exhibit – The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius from 1654. The story begins with thirteen-year-old Theo Decker and his mother at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Goldfinch is my first taste of Donna Tartt and although I’m a little late to the game, I’m glad I finally found my way into her world of literary fiction. Each award-winning novel was published ten years apart so by the time The Goldfinch came out, it was a bestseller before it hit the shelves. The Goldfinch, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 and several other notable awards, is Donna Tartt’s third full-length novel.
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