Today’s blog post will be a review for one of my 2020 reads, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. This was an absorbing read even though the narrator was infuriating, self-absorbed, oblivious, selfish, and annoying. Start by marking “The Dutch House” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I hope you are all well. Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. I always want to have one of her books available to read. Don't expect that anyone will do you the favor of listening if you don't trouble yourself to use your voice.”, “...her big, wandering brain was underutilized, and would often turn itself against my sister.”, “One of us was sleeping and I didn't know which one of us it was.”. I've yet to read anything that she writes and not like it. Hello everyone! Phenomenal story with a wonderful message. Needless to say, there was no doubt I would read this one and like it. Their father strikes it rich and buys a lavish mansion known as The Dutch House as a surprise for their mother, and that event reverberates with repercussions for everyone in the family and kicks off a five-decade long story. “I had a mother who left when I was a child. “I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. In this, her soon to be published novel, she follows a family for five decades, a family that is broken apart, for reasons that I cannot at this time share. Maeve and Danny’s mother abandoned their family when they were young, so they are raised by their father and the household help instead. HarperCollins published Ann Patchett’s eighth novel, The Dutch House, on September 24, 2019. It follows two siblings, Danny and Maeve, and their childhood home, The Dutch House, across decades with a mother who disappeared, an emotionally distant father, his new wife and her daughters and, eventually, Danny’s wife and children. I know it's odd. It might seem like change was impossible, given my nature and my age, but I understood exactly what there was to lose. How would rate it in comparison to State of Wonder, and Bel Canto? I a big fan of Ann Patchett. A doomed house, distant father and wicked stepmother forge an unbreakable bond between two siblings Goodreads reviews for The Dutch House USA Today's Best-Selling Books List I just wish there had been more insight into her background. Mixed feelings on both sides. In the city of constant stimulation, we had failed to give them the opportunity to develop strong inner lives for those occasions when they would find themselves sitting through the second act of The Nutcracker.”, “To grow up with a mother who had run off to India, never to be heard from again, that was one thing — there was closure in that, its own kind of death. There was plenty of character driven detail about Danny and Maeve (and even Elna, in the second half) of the story. There is an epic feel to this novel but it is also an intimate portrait of siblings who have found home in each other when they are failed by the adults who were supposed to nurture them. Like Commonwealth, The Dutch House is a family saga that spans decades. My Rating: 3.5 Stars (rounded to 4 stars on Goodreads) The Dutch House Information (affiliate link) https://www.instagram.com/the.bookishworld.of.yrralh/. The Dutch House, a new novel by Ann Patchett (Bel Canto, State of Wonder), features a distinctive 1920s mansion that becomes the obsession of siblings Danny and Maeve Conroy, who can’t go home again.There’s also an avaricious stepmother, … There was nothing to do about that now but add it to the catalog of my mistakes.”, “Thinking about the past impeded my efforts to be decent in the present.”, “The dinner was a huge production, with kids stashed in the den to eat off card tables like a collection of understudies who dreamed of one day breaking into the dining room.”, “We had stepped into the river that takes you forward.”, “You have to serve those who need to be served, not just the ones who make you feel good about yourself.”, “We were all so young, you know. The point was it had to be done.”, “Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?”, “We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”, “There would never been an end to all the things I wished I'd asked my father. Saved by Goodreads. I was sickened to realize we’d kept it going for so long, not that we had decided to stop.”, “She was a magnificent child, and the whole world was laid out in front of her, covered in stars.”, “Celeste and I had made a few halfhearted attempts to get the kids to church when they were young, and then we gave up and left them in bed. The Dutch House Anne Patchett, 2019 HarperCollins 352 pp. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we’re not seeing it as the people we were, we’re seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”, “And so I made the decision to change. 31 diciembre, 2020. It'd be faster. The Dutch House is the stuff of fairy tales, and Patchett’s plot sounds like a fairy tale, as well. (Yes, he is our Danny boy). For months this gem was just sitting there waiting to be downloaded on my Audible app. It was chemistry all over again. Welcome back. I read the interview in which Patchett said that she became intrigued with the idea of writing a story around "the evil stepmother. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Retrieved 9/5/2016.) Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
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