Review: The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Because this won the Pulitzer, I was a little intimidated by it. No need - it was a great read, complex but accessible.

The story is about a young boy who loses his mother in a bombing in an art museum. He forms a strong attachment to a piece of art that she loved, and it begins to define him. Through his life with an affluent family who takes him in, then an ecclectic art collector who befriends him, the painting is always present in his life.

I loved the development of characters in this book, and the story. Tartt is known for being - well, whatever the opposite of prolific is, so it will be a while before I read something else of hers.

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