The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history 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 work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.

I noticed this on your wishlist. I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you so much! Nice seeing you at the convention!

It took me some years to finally read this novel, but it was well worth it. I had problems coming into it although it had a really compelling beginning sentence. I had to put it away at times, the slowness irritated me. Suddenly something just clicked and I read through it and enjoyed it a lot. Tartt is a master of creating moods and fascinating, wellrounded characters.

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