Yet, this show of love does not keep Cyril and his wife, Elna, together. The Dutch House is a grand 1922 mansion outside Philadelphia that their father, Cyril, bought as a surprise for his wife when Maeve was 5. Unfortunately, he must largely rely on his older sister, Maeve, to teach him family history, undo his tricks of memory, and teach him about the home they were raised in, the Dutch House. Danny Conroy narrates the novel, and, like memory, Danny’s narrative jumps around in time. The story follows two siblings, Maeve and Danny Conroy, who have a very close relationship partly due to the fact that their mother left home when they were only 10 and 3 years old. “We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”Īnn Patchett’s The Dutch House is a book about family, love, and nostalgia.
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