![]() ![]() She also states frequently that the novel is a response, to an extent, to the Trump election in 2016: “This book was born out of the Trump election in a lot of ways. The novel has elements of traditional fairy tales, such as a wicked stepmother, stepsisters, a magnificent “castle,” loss, and poverty, Patchett explained that she wanted to write a novel about the kind of stepmother she did not want to be (she became a stepmother when she married her husband). Indeed, reviews as a whole were laudatory, or at least positive. ![]() ![]() This paid off: Kirkus Reviews raved over the book in large part because the setting was so alive that it gave the reader the feeling that they could jump into the car, drive to Elkins Park, and find both Maeve and Danny once they got there. She felt that writing about an area she had actually spent time in and felt affection for would give the novel a layer of familiarity and authenticity. The fictional Dutch House of the title is located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, where the author spent weekends as a college student. It tells the story of two siblings, Danny and Maeve Conroy, and how their abandonment as children leaves them reliant on each other. The Dutch Houseis a novel by Ann Patchett, published in 2019. ![]()
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