The Goldfinch is a novel written by Donna Tartt. It was first published in 2013, and it has received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book is about a young boy who loses his mother in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The boy then goes to live with his father who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The boy then falls in love with a girl who becomes part of his life, but he loses her too. He then finds himself working at an antiques shop where he sees an old painting that looks exactly like one that was stolen from him when he was younger. The painting has been stolen from an art museum and he sets out to find it again before it disappears forever.