Donna Tartt · 2013 · thriller

Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning 2013 novel. Thirteen-year-old Theo Decker survives a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum that kills his mother, and walks out of the wreckage carrying a small Dutch masterpiece, The Goldfinch. The stolen painting follows him for years, from the empty desert suburbs of Las Vegas to a Greenwich Village antique shop to the criminal underworld of Amsterdam, an anchor and a curse he cannot put down.

1. 1
   New York

   A bomb at the Metropolitan Museum kills Theo's mother, and he carries out a stolen painting, The Goldfinch.

2. 2
   Las Vegas

   Taken west by his absent father to the half-empty desert suburbs, and his wild friendship with Boris.

3. 3
   New York

   Back east, by bus across the country, to the antique restorer Hobie in Greenwich Village.

4. 4
   Amsterdam

   And at last to Amsterdam, and a violent reckoning over the painting.