The Dutch House by Ann Patchett #foliosociety As years pass and fires

As years pass and fires rage on

and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert

it begins with a personal trauma-the account of how Emily LaBarge and her family were held hostage during the Christmas holidays of 2009-but looks outwards as much as inwards for answers

What if those he has long dismissed as crazed loonies actually have a point

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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett #foliosociety As years pass and firesA STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CANT LET GO. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been taken from us by the person who still lived inside. In the economic boom following the Second World War, Cyril Conroy's real estate investments take his family