这是一本温柔、充满力量的书。书中收录了作者近三年来所写的随笔笔记四十余篇，记录着她对生活的感悟，对生命的愿望，以及对社会的独特的思考。作者站在每本图书、每部电影、每曲音乐背后，用克制凛冽的目光，打量艺术和生活，用清新自然又饱含温度的文字讨论关于爱情、青春、人性、社会等具有普世性的话题。在这些阐发中，又很自然地结合了作者个人的生活经历、情感回忆，因此，这本书毫无疑问被打上了作者强烈的个人色彩和独立的风格。最后，所有的的思考，忧郁、反驳、平静，全部沉淀下来，静静汇成一道流经我们内心的风景。

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.