Lucas Stoffel

The Goldfinch Book Review: Theo Decker is thirteen when a bomb goes off in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, killing his mother and changing the course of his life forever. In the chaos and dust, he takes a small painting — The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius, a real painting, a real masterpiece — and carries it home. That painting becomes the axis around which his entire life spins for the next fourteen years, through foster homes in New York, a surreal adolescence in Las Vegas w

This book won the Pulitzer and honestly it deserved all of it. Percival Everett takes Huckleberry Finn, a book most of us read in school, and retells it from Jim's perspective. Except here, his name is James, and he's been code-switching his entire life. Speaking one way around white people, another way when they're not listening. That device, that simple idea, completely transforms the story. Twain wrote Jim as a sidekick. Everett writes him as the smartest person in ever