The Goldfinch Science Fiction The Pope is dead

The Pope is dead

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Tim Harford offers witty

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Rubin’s passion for her subject jumps off the page

The Goldfinch Science Fiction The Pope is deadTheo Decker, a thirteen year old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that