Be prepared to savor this robust and remarkable novel by Donna Tartt. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Goldfinch weaves a wonderful yet sometimes sad tale involving the life of young Theodore Decker. His world is turned upside down and right side up as he struggles with the loss of his mother in a suspicious museum explosion, and his father by desertion. Yet he finds his purpose by a painting of a bird by a little known artist. The novel is big, but the rewards of reading it are bigger.