NATIONAL BESTSELLER âĸ From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. âĸÂ âDestined to become a special kind of classic.â âThe New York Times Book Review
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Motherâs Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parentsâ yard. Twelve years later Robinâs murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robinâs sister Harrietâunnervingly 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 townâs rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her familyâs history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and âa bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickensâ (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.