About the book
In a Mississippi town, twelve years have passed since nine-year-old Robin Dufresnes was discovered hanged from a tree in his family's yard one Mother's Day, yet his death remains unsolved and his family has never recovered. His sister Harriet, now twelve, is fiercely bright, stubborn and steeped in Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson, and she resolves to find the killer and punish him. Her only helper is her devoted younger friend Hely. Donna Tartt's second novel came a decade after The Secret History, and she described its form as symphonic, unlike the single point of view of her first.
Max Gurvits, director of Cross Border Angels, named it among the four books he was reading in an interview about his favorite books.
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Max Gurvits (Director/Cross Border Angels)
Right now the four books Iʼm reading are The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, 45th Parallel by Polina Zherebtsova (in Russian),“The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov (in Bulgarian), and re-reading the Dutch classic Au Pair by W.F. Hermans (in Dutch). Itʼs hard to say what we expect to gain from reading. Perhaps only true for introverts, but books are a way to look really deep into ourselves and have very meaningful conversations in our mind about the questions we think about as we go about our daily lives.
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