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Theodore Decker

Boris Pavlikovsky

Welton Blackwell

Pippa Blackwell

Samantha Barbour

George Bracegirdle

Mr. Pavlikovsky

Margaret Blackwell Pierce

Saffi Caspersen

Havistock Irving

Anne de Larmessin

Forrest Longstreet

Sabine Ingersoll

Martina Lichtblau

Isabella Cushing

Celia Longstreet

Metropolitan Museum of Art

West Tenth Street

Greenwich Village

Brooklyn Navy Yard

abandoned community center playground

Double R Apartments

Overtoom parking garage

Barbour apartment

Hobart and Blackwell

Ariston Fine Arts Storage

Russian club in Queens

The storage unit

Emerald earrings

The chest-on-chest

Jack Russell Terrier

Miniature Pinscher

Mother dies in museum bombing

Father abandons family

Theo taken in by Barbours

Theo meets Hobie and Pippa

Father returns and takes Theo to Las Vegas

Father dies in car crash

Theo flees to New York

Theo lives with Hobie and runs antique shop

Theo's drug addiction and confrontation with Lucius Reeve

Theo gets engaged to Kitsey

Boris reappears and plans Amsterdam trip

Amsterdam shootout and painting recovery

Theo confesses everything to Hobie

Andy Barbour drowns

Welty Blackwell dies in bombing

Identity·Transformation

Theo Decker and Audrey Decker

Theo Decker and Larry Decker

Theo Decker and James Hobart (Hobie)

Theo Decker and Pippa Blackwell

Theo Decker and Boris Pavlikovsky

Theo Decker and Andy Barbour

Theo Decker and Kitsey Barbour

Theo Decker and Mrs. Barbour (Samantha)

Theo Decker and Mr. Barbour (Chance)

Theo Decker and Xandra Terrell

Theo Decker and Welty Blackwell

James Hobart (Hobie) and Welty Blackwell

Pippa Blackwell and Welty Blackwell

Boris Pavlikovsky and his father (Mr. Pavlikovsky)

Boris Pavlikovsky and Kotku (Kylie Hutchins)

Andy Barbour and his father (Chance Barbour)

Andy Barbour and his mother (Samantha Barbour)

Kitsey Barbour and Tom Cable

Samantha Barbour and Chance Barbour

Theo Decker and his grandparents (Bob and Dorothy Decker)

Theo Decker and George Bracegirdle

Theo Decker and Grisha

Theo Decker and Lucius Reeve

Boris Pavlikovsky and Horst

Boris Pavlikovsky and Myriam

Boris Pavlikovsky and Victor Cherry

Morphine lollipop

Wind, Sand and Stars

Everything of possibility

The anatomy lesson

The shop-behind-the-shop

The gentleman's canal

The rendezvous point

Boy with a Skull

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Better never born

The absurd does not liberate; it binds

When we are strongest—who draws back

The line of beauty

Nature red in tooth and claw

The sympathetic cripple

The death haiku

The world won't come to me, so I must go to it

The center of my earth is you

The moon is the same wherever you go

Laughter is light, and light is laughter

The secret of the universe

The magic point where every idea and its opposite are equally true

The middle zone

The rainbow edge

The space between notes

The stars are beautiful because of the space between them

The place where reality strikes the ideal

The joke at its heart

The thing and yet not the thing

Beauty and Redemption

How beauty, especially art, can redeem or save people.

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Overview Timelines StoryFlow

Entities

Theodore Decker

Boris Pavlikovsky

Welton Blackwell

Pippa Blackwell

Samantha Barbour

George Bracegirdle

Mr. Pavlikovsky

Margaret Blackwell Pierce

Saffi Caspersen

Havistock Irving

Anne de Larmessin

Forrest Longstreet

Sabine Ingersoll

Martina Lichtblau

Isabella Cushing

Celia Longstreet

Metropolitan Museum of Art

West Tenth Street

Greenwich Village

Brooklyn Navy Yard

abandoned community center playground

Double R Apartments

Overtoom parking garage

Barbour apartment

Hobart and Blackwell

Ariston Fine Arts Storage

Russian club in Queens

The storage unit

Emerald earrings

The chest-on-chest

Jack Russell Terrier

Miniature Pinscher

Mother dies in museum bombing

Father abandons family

Theo taken in by Barbours

Theo meets Hobie and Pippa

Father returns and takes Theo to Las Vegas

Father dies in car crash

Theo flees to New York

Theo lives with Hobie and runs antique shop

Theo's drug addiction and confrontation with Lucius Reeve

Theo gets engaged to Kitsey

Boris reappears and plans Amsterdam trip

Amsterdam shootout and painting recovery

Theo confesses everything to Hobie

Andy Barbour drowns

Welty Blackwell dies in bombing

Identity·Transformation

Theo Decker and Audrey Decker

Theo Decker and Larry Decker

Theo Decker and James Hobart (Hobie)

Theo Decker and Pippa Blackwell

Theo Decker and Boris Pavlikovsky

Theo Decker and Andy Barbour

Theo Decker and Kitsey Barbour

Theo Decker and Mrs. Barbour (Samantha)

Theo Decker and Mr. Barbour (Chance)

Theo Decker and Xandra Terrell

Theo Decker and Welty Blackwell

James Hobart (Hobie) and Welty Blackwell

Pippa Blackwell and Welty Blackwell

Boris Pavlikovsky and his father (Mr. Pavlikovsky)

Boris Pavlikovsky and Kotku (Kylie Hutchins)

Andy Barbour and his father (Chance Barbour)

Andy Barbour and his mother (Samantha Barbour)

Kitsey Barbour and Tom Cable

Samantha Barbour and Chance Barbour

Theo Decker and his grandparents (Bob and Dorothy Decker)

Theo Decker and George Bracegirdle

Theo Decker and Grisha

Theo Decker and Lucius Reeve

Boris Pavlikovsky and Horst

Boris Pavlikovsky and Myriam

Boris Pavlikovsky and Victor Cherry

Morphine lollipop

Wind, Sand and Stars

Everything of possibility

The anatomy lesson

The shop-behind-the-shop

The gentleman's canal

The rendezvous point

Boy with a Skull

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Better never born

The absurd does not liberate; it binds

When we are strongest—who draws back

The line of beauty

Nature red in tooth and claw

The sympathetic cripple

The death haiku

The world won't come to me, so I must go to it

The center of my earth is you

The moon is the same wherever you go

Laughter is light, and light is laughter

The secret of the universe

The magic point where every idea and its opposite are equally true

The middle zone

The rainbow edge

The space between notes

The stars are beautiful because of the space between them

The place where reality strikes the ideal

The joke at its heart

The thing and yet not the thing