{"product_id":"the-dutch-house-a-read-with-jenna-pick","title":"The Dutch House: A Read with Jenna Pick USED LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the\u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York Times Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e| A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New\u003cbr\u003eYork Times Book Review Notable\u003cbr\u003eBook | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed one\u003cbr\u003eof the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington\u003cbr\u003ePost; O:\u003cbr\u003eThe Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping,\u003cbr\u003eVogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnn Patchett, the\u003cbr\u003e#1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores\u003cbr\u003ethe indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a\u003cbr\u003epast that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story\u003cbr\u003eof a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of\u003cbr\u003einheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who\u003cbr\u003ewe really are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the Second World\u003cbr\u003eWar, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an\u003cbr\u003eenormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous\u003cbr\u003ewealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate\u003cbr\u003ein the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the\u003cbr\u003ehouse sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is told by Cyril’s son\u003cbr\u003eDanny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured\u003cbr\u003eMaeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The\u003cbr\u003etwo wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped\u003cbr\u003efrom and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this\u003cbr\u003eunshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their\u003cbr\u003efutures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of five\u003cbr\u003edecades, The\u003cbr\u003eDutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who\u003cbr\u003ecannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and\u003cbr\u003eMaeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives\u003cbr\u003ethey return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage.\u003cbr\u003eBut when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind,\u003cbr\u003ethe relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is\u003cbr\u003efinally tested.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50540133056675,"sku":"9780062966469","price":1.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/6831\/6835\/files\/9780062966469.jpg?v=1790622522","url":"https:\/\/kicksmixbooks.store\/products\/the-dutch-house-a-read-with-jenna-pick","provider":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}