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Finalist for thePulitzer PrizeNew York Times Bestseller| A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A NewYork Times Book Review NotableBook | TIME Magazine''s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019Named oneof the Best Books of the Year by NPR The WashingtonPost; O:The Oprah Magazine Real Simple Good HousekeepingVogue Refinery29 and BuzzfeedAnn Patchett the#1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that exploresthe indelible bond between two siblings the house of their childhood and apast that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the storyof a paradise lost a tour de force that digs deeply into questions ofinheritance love and forgiveness of how we want to see ourselves and of whowe really are.At the end of the Second WorldWar Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin anenormous real estate empire propelling his family from poverty to enormouswealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House a lavish estatein the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife thehouse sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.The story is told by Cyril’s sonDanny as he and his older sister the brilliantly acerbic and self-assuredMaeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. Thetwo wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escapedfrom and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is thisunshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts theirfutures.Set over the course of fivedecades TheDutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people whocannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success Danny andMaeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their livesthey return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage.But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behindthe relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister isfinally tested.