Virtual Hearth Book Club
In our continued efforts to facilitate creative community building in the time of social-distancing, Miranda’s Hearth is relaunching the Hearth Book Club!
Based on input from our community members, we’ll be reading a series of escapist fiction novels starting with The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Grab a copy and read along before our virtual meeting on Sunday, April 19th at 2:00 pm!
Google Hangout Meeting Link: meet.google.com/hqn-pgsa-wmy
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORES
Despite being closed for browsing, many local bookstores are still doing curbside pick-up and delivery. We encourage you to get your copies from one of these stores!
Copper Dog Books in Beverly
Porter Square Books in Cambridge
Dogtown Book Shop in Gloucester
Let us know about other local book stores you can order from!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
It begins with a boy. Theo 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 ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher’s calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.