The Dutch House

Publisher's Summary Audiobook performed by Tom Hanks. New York Times  best seller | A Read with Jenna  Today Show Book Club Pick | A  New York Times Book Review  Notable Book |  Time  Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 | 2020 Audie finalist - audiobook of the year and best male narrator Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR,  The Washington Post ;  O: The Oprah Magazine ,  Real Simple ,  Good Housekeeping , Vogue , Refinery29, and Buzzfeed  Ann Patchett, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of  Commonwealth , delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love, and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves, and of who we really are. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.  The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the …