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The Dutch house
Tag	Description
001	$ 000066102138
020	$a9781526614957 (trade paperback)
082	$a823.92
100	$aPatchett, Ann,
250	$aFirst edition.
260	$aLondon :$bBloomsbury publishing,$c2019.
300	$a337 pages ;$c24 cm.
520	$aDanny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.
650	$aHistorical fiction.
650	$aDysfunctional families.
650	$aInheritance and succession.
650	$aPoverty.
651	$aPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia.