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  1. The Little Friend is a mystery adventure, centered on a young girl, Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, living in Mississippi in the early 1970s. The story follows Harriet's anxiety surrounding the unexplained death of her brother, Robin, who was killed by hanging in 1964 at the age of nine. [1]

    • Donna Tartt
    • 2002
  2. Oct 22, 2002 · Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. 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.

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  3. The Little Friend is a Southern Gothic novel by Donna Tartt published in 2002. The story is set in Alexandria, Mississippi, during the 1970s. The novel revolves around the unsolved murder of Harriet Dufresnes’ brother, Robin, who was found hanging from a tree when he was just nine years old.

  4. Oct 28, 2003 · The Little Friend. Donna Tartt. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 28, 2003 - Fiction - 640 pages. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an...

  5. May 27, 2020 · The Little Friend in a nutshell. The book tells the story of Harriet, a 12-year old girl living in Mississippi in the 1970s. She was just a baby when her brother, Robin, died in mysterious circumstances. During the summer holiday Harriet becomes deeply preoccupied by the unexplained death and tries to seek revenge for her brother.

  6. The girl's experiences makes The Little Friend very much a coming-of-age story. Like Tartt herself, intelligent, outcast Harriet loves reading books and is particularly influenced by classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island .

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  8. In Donna Tartt’s novel, “The Little Friend,” the theme of identity and belonging is explored through the character of Harriet. Harriet, a young girl growing up in a small Southern town, struggles to find her place in the world and to understand her own identity.

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