The Dutch House is American writer Ann Patchett's eighth novel, published in 2019. The novel is narrated by Danny Conroy, the son of a man who built an impressive real estate empire after WWII and moved his family into a historic home outside of Philadelphia. Danny and his brilliant, unflappable sister, Maeve, grow up in this house, though their childhood is marked by the sudden, unexplained departure of their mother when Maeve is ten years old. Their father marries a woman named Andrea; when he dies just a few years later, Andrea banishes Danny and Maeve from their home and cuts them off from their inheritance. For the rest of the novel, Danny and Maeve rebuild their life from this...
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