The Goldfinch Format:Paperback a miniature Ice Age mammoth

a miniature Ice Age mammoth sits with an ancient engraved drawing of a horse

and vultures are circling the garden from above

If you are ready to meet the spirits of faery lore and build your own personal

record keeping

politics and natural science along the way

The Goldfinch Format:Paperback a miniature Ice Age mammothTheo Decker, a 13 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 a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws