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Review Quotes: Patricia Finn has worked as a writer and ghostwriter on non-fiction, episodic television and feature films. She completed post-graduate work in English and Classics with a focus on Aristotle and Athenian tragedy. She has both Canadian and American roots and now lives in Vancouver. The Golden Boy is her first novel. Review Quotes: "Patricia Finn excels at creating set pieces, imbuing them with life, and uses them to contribute a distinctive form of dynamism that vivifies the whole...The Golden Boy wisely chooses allegory over melodrama, and atonement over redemption, honoring the idea that paradise can be neither found, nor lost, and the arc of life will always favor Napanee over Maui." -- National Post (CAN)Publisher Marketing: 2026 B&N Discover Prize Finalist An unexpected letter sends a man and his wife into their pasts--and offers them both a shot at redemption. After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home. Stafford is ready to retreat into himself, too, when a letter arrives with shocking news. Stafford has been named guardian of four children he didn't know existed: the grandchildren of his late childhood friend, Bobby Shepherd, whose ghost Stafford can no longer ignore. Returning to both the hardscrabble farming town and the dark secret he'd tried to forget for decades, Stafford is forced to confront his past in order to rebuild his future--and to redirect the fates of his family and the four young people suddenly in his care. Slyly funny and deeply moving, The Golden Boy is a captivating debut about love, mercy, and second chances."The Golden Boy is not just an astoundingly ambitious novel, but also--and more importantly, in my opinion--a wildly entertaining one, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Bravo, Patricia Finn!" ―Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy Review Citations:
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