The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, 771 pages.

Tartt's epic, sprawling (and at times, seemingly-endless) novel follows Theo Decker from the time his mother is killed in a terrorist attack on a New York art museum. He stays with his friend Andy's family through his time in middle-school. then he's on to high-school in Vegas, living with his prone-to-violence father, an obsessed gambler and his brash, drug-dealing girlfriend. He meets and befriends Boris while in Vegas, and for a while it seems that the story is about them, but then Theo is off again. He wanders back to New York and reconnects with Hobie and Pippa. Pippa was also injured in the explosion years ago, and Hobie was the partner of her Uncle.
It's convoluted, with lots of blind alleys and sub-plots that fade away.
Interesting characters, fun plot, but overlong.
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