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In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian

who never wrote an autobiography

He asks us to understand their complex story and to rethink our prejudices

continuing violence in the Middle East

The Goldfinch Condition:Like New With the science-fiction world-building ofAged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an absent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented by longing for his mother and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.