The Little Friend A Novel

The Little Friend: A Novel By Donna Tartt

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The second novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling writer of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly bold and completely riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, the place one Mother’s Day a bit of boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was discovered hanging from a tree in his dad and mom’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s homicide remains to be unsolved and his household stays devastated. So it's that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly shiny, insufferably decided, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--units out to unmask his killer. Aided solely by her worshipful buddy Hely, Harriet crosses her city’s inflexible strains of race and caste and burrows deep into her household’s historical past of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a piece of myriad enchantments by a author of prodigious expertise.