The Goldfinch Science Fiction Cyril Wong wrestles with absences

Cyril Wong wrestles with absences behind the everyday hope of recovering new justifications for a more meaningful existence

Tim Harford offers witty

Garance is an original with the cutest French accent

and by extension his work visa

The Goldfinch Science Fiction Cyril Wong wrestles with absencesTheo Decker, a thirteen year old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that