![]() ![]() Despite the many hours I spent with this audiobook, I was sad when it was over. It's an incredible coming of age tale, read by Pittu with humor and perfect dramatic timing. ![]() Theo is bounced through households, adrift without his mother, from the Upper East Side apartment of a wealthy schoolmate to his father's Las Vegas subdivision, always accompanied by the small, precious painting he took from the museum on the fateful day his mother died. The story follows Theo Decker from the day he loses his mother in a terrorist attack inside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art through the rest of his youth. Read by veteran stage actor David Pittu (and award winning audiobook narrator), I was rapt from the opening scene to the very last. It's so long! And sprawling! Was I really going to commit to thirty hours of a book about a painting? The answer is: I waited much too long to get to this truly incredible story, and if you-like me-are daunted by this book's length and scope, the audiobook is for you. “The Goldfinch was always one of those books I was intimidated to start. ![]()
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