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The Goldfinch
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by Donna Tartt · 2013
Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel follows Theo Decker, who survives a terrorist bombing at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and secretly takes a small masterpiece, Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch. The painting shapes his coming-of-age journey through grief, guilt, friendship, art, and the criminal underworld.
2 episodes featuring The Goldfinch
The Daily
The thriller list blurs genre and literary fiction
The episode examines how suspense, character psychology, and social observation can make thrillers literary as well as compulsively readable.
Aug 16, 2026 · 47 min
Watch What Crappens
Orange County friendships buckle before the Vegas trip
The recap tracks how money, loyalty, health anxieties, and old betrayals turn a planned getaway into a test of trust.
Aug 14, 2026 · 1h 3m