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The Dutch House is a 2019 novel by Ann Patchett. It was published by Harper on September 24, 2019. It tells the story of a brother and sister, Danny and Maeve Conroy, who grow up in a mansion known as the Dutch House, and their lives over five decades. [2] The novel was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [3]
In 2019, Patchett published her first children's book, Lambslide, [23] and the novel The Dutch House, [24] a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [25] In November 2021, she published These Precious Days, an essay collection she describes as the sequel to This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
The novel ends with another party thrown by Beverly, who has divorced Bert and remarried. Franny, married with two step-children, briefly leaves the Christmas party and drives to Bert’s house nearby. After visiting Bert, she stands on his porch and recalls a memory when she and Albie were the only children living in the house.
Dutch house, a style of the electro house music genre that originated in the Netherlands; Dutch House (New Castle, Delaware), a late-17th-century house in New Castle, Delaware; Dutch Houses, Chester, a building in Chester, England
The Dutch House is a historic multi-unit residential building at 20 Netherlands Road in Brookline, Massachusetts. This four-story brick building was originally built as an exhibition hall at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago , where it served as the Dutch Cocoa House.
The book has received mostly favorable reviews. Writing in the New York Times , [ 1 ] Fernanda Eberstadt calls the novel “an engaging, consummately told tale.” In the same newspaper, Janet Maslin ’s review praises the novel, writing that “this book’s central issue, its unresolved rivalry…[is] the dragon of a teacher who lurks ...
The book is a memoir, covering Shorto's own family history and his ancestors involvement in the American Mafia in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. [6] In 2022, Shorto founded, and became Director of, the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society, with a mission to promote awareness of New York's Dutch origins.
Dodge subsequently did further bibliographical research into the country. She also received much firsthand information about Dutch life from her immigrant Dutch neighbors, the Scharffs, [3] and Dodge wrote in her preface to the 1875 edition of the book that the story of Hans Brinker's father was "founded strictly upon fact". [4]