Lee's review
The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Lee's review
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Lee's review
rating:
This is Tartt's second book, and there are only two. I read this directly after I read her fantastic debut, "The Secret History". The first novel was published in 1992, and fans had to wait over ten years for this second effort.
This is a terrific book, and it inspired in me the same voracity as "The Secret History". However, this book is certainly more laborious, more troubled than Tartt's debut. It tells many, many stories, most specifically of 12-year old Harriet Dufresnes, who is trying to solve the decade-old murder of her then-nine year old brother, Robin. It also tells the story of a Mississippi town in the 1970s, and so obviously it tells the story (or a sliver of the story) of race, class and oppression.
Harriet is a tenacious, intelligent, charming main character, and anyone who doesn't see more than a little Scout Finch in her is blind. Harriet makes the too-often-plodding, drawn-out minor character studies bearable. She's simply a delightful kid an...more
This is a terrific book, and it inspired in me the same voracity as "The Secret History". However, this book is certainly more laborious, more troubled than Tartt's debut. It tells many, many stories, most specifically of 12-year old Harriet Dufresnes, who is trying to solve the decade-old murder of her then-nine year old brother, Robin. It also tells the story of a Mississippi town in the 1970s, and so obviously it tells the story (or a sliver of the story) of race, class and oppression.
Harriet is a tenacious, intelligent, charming main character, and anyone who doesn't see more than a little Scout Finch in her is blind. Harriet makes the too-often-plodding, drawn-out minor character studies bearable. She's simply a delightful kid an...more
