The Goldfinch Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller and Nominee for Goodreads Author (2012) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) and the assimilation required of

and the assimilation required of immigrants—abandoning their language and culture

the stakes are higher than ever

no passport

his work is often experimental

and democracy

The Goldfinch Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller and Nominee for Goodreads Author (2012) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) and the assimilation required ofTheo Decker, a thirteen 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 his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that