(https://youtu.be/NaTB_DApzaE)

The Goldfinch is based off of a novel by Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was Tartt's first novel since The Little Friend in 2002. The novel is a coming-of-age tale told in the first person, Theodore Decker, a 13 year old boy who loses his loving, intelligent, intriguing and emotionally flawed mother. They are in an art gallery (where I hope they keep her words exactly as they are in the book because she is so engaging...I was swept away.) during a terrorist bombing. And the decisions he makes right after he sits up in the ash...is where are story begins!

I listened to the book on audible. It is a heavy duty book, 784 pages. It is not for everyone, but it was for me. Then again, I do love long narratives with long character development. The movie is star-studded...and I hope they do it justice!