The Dutch House

The Dutch House – by Ann Patchett

By Patty Shlonsky on January 10, 2020

The Dutch House is a marvelously moving novel about a house, its inhabitants, their lives and the impact of the house on everything. “The Dutch House, as it came to be known in Elkins Park and Jenkintown and Glenside and all the way to Philadelphia, referred not to the house’s architecture but to its inhabitants.…

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