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Theo shoved the painting back into the knapsack, burying it under the jerky and the clothes. He had just zipped the bag shut when the front door crashed open.

Not just unread—but new new. Theo Decker ran his thumb down the spine of his old, battered copy of The Goldfinch , the one he’d carried from New York to Las Vegas to Amsterdam and back. Page three hundred had always been the problem. In every previous copy, it was stained, dog-eared, torn at the corner where Hobie’s pencil note once bled through: “Careful—the bird sees you.” the goldfinch book page 300 new

On page 300 of the new edition, Theo and Boris are not in school. They are not even pretending to function. Instead, the page opens in the aftermath of a three-day binge. Theo shoved the painting back into the knapsack,