AMERICAN GOLDFINCH

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.
(Donna Tartt)

Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch is a masterful story of life and loss, a sprawling literary page-turner that begins with the death of 13-year-old Theo's mother in a terrorist attack on the Metropolitan Museum of Art and propels the reader through a coming-of-age tale like none ever written.