Fate and Triumph National Book Award for Fiction (2001) Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of

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Fate and Triumph National Book Award for Fiction (2001) Fourteen-year-old Dita is one ofDescription: Dive into these two novels that aim to triumph over fate. In The Goldfinch, Theo Decker, aged thirteen, 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