![]() ![]() ![]() Reflecting in extended flashbacks, now-middle-aged Danny evaluates his and Maeve’s connection to “the Dutch House,” what it meant to each of them, and what they really lost and mourn. Have you ever stalked a house? Conflated the grief over lost family with a lost homeplace? In The Dutch House, Ann Patchett’s eighth novel, protagonists Danny Conroy and his older sister, Maeve, stalk and lament their childhood home throughout their lives.Īs she has before, the author explores family relationships, particularly the compensatory bond between siblings cut adrift by the absence of their mother, the death of their father, and their abrupt, premature exit from their onetime home. ![]()
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