Deep into The Dutch House, Danny Conroy and his family attend a school production of The Nutcracker. Danny is in his 40s, married and living in New York City, a world away from the Pennsylvania ...

At a June wedding in a Gatsbyesque mansion, a few of us lingered on the terrace to enjoy the view across the lawn to the forest and the lake. Slowly, we began to walk back toward the house with its ...

The dominant figure in Ann Patchett’s new novel, “The Dutch House,” is in many ways the house itself, a captivating childhood home that later becomes, as one character puts it, “the hero of every ...

From the outset, Ann Patchett’s intricate and alluring new novel, “The Dutch House,” announces its enriching relationship to two literary classics: Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” and Dickens’ “Great ...