Rob Baker’s Reviews > The Goldfinch > Status Update

"...even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcemnt to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation fo the world" (304).