Review the dutch house5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Danny recounts this story and the haunting way he and his sister often linger outside the house they've been cast out of ruminating about the past and the truth about their family. In their teenage years they are unceremoniously ousted from their family home and must fend for themselves. When their father marries a new woman named Andrea who brings her own two daughters into the house, the Conroy children feel themselves growing even more estranged from their aloof father. Danny and his sister Maeve grow up in a grand house with a prosperous father, but their mother abandoned them in their childhood. It's a sensibility I can relate to now that I'm in my early 40s and think back to the mysteries of my early life wondering why certain decisions were made. Maybe it's the tone of his wide-eyed innocence and ignorance as he looks back at his childhood, family life and the home he was cast out of. Something about the way Ann Patchett presents her central character of Danny Conroy in her new novel “The Dutch House” hooked me to his consciousness. ![]() There are some novels where I instantly feel connected to the narrator as if he were an old friend. ![]()
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