Although The Dutch House is written in Patchett’s signature prose, which can be described as being deceptively simple it features a first-person perspective, which is a departure from her usual third-person point of view.
Marina Singh’s as she leaves Minnesota for the Amazon Rainforest) Patchett tends to explore the same themes: there is a focus on familial relationships, especially between siblings, and these established dynamics are often changed due to some ‘major’ event (often the death of a loved one/relative/colleague). Regardless of the scope of her stories (whether they take place in a short period of time in a particular city, such as in Run, or move us between two ‘extremes’, in The Magician’s Assistant we move between Los Angeles and Nebraska, or take us on even longer journey, for instance in State of Wonder we follow Dr. Yet, I wholeheartedly loved her early books (especially her unjustly underrated 1997 novel, The Magician’s Assistant), so to imply that she ‘keeps getting better’ would be doing her a disservice. It is difficult to ‘pick’ a favourite, even if I can see that throughout the course of her writing career she has really honed her craft. This is the eight novel that I’ve read by Ann Patchett and she has yet to disappoint. The fact is that I loved The Dutch House so much that I find hard to see it as a ‘mere’ work of fiction. With The Dutch House it took me nearly two weeks to work up the ‘courage’ to review it. Usually I tend to post my reviews a couple of days after I’ve finished reading a book.
Not Quite a Review, More of an Ode to Ann Patchett: “I was still at a point in my life when the house was the hero of every story, our lost and beloved country.”
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