The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt · first published 2000
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A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his killer.
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Oh boy, you fucked up now. Here are the books I read this past year that I felt were "Good", starting from the most recent : To Kill A Mocking Bird (Insanely good) True Grit (Insanely good) The Little Friend (Good) Priceless (Very good, about art theft) The Secret History (Insanely good) Ready Player One (Good, nerdy) Shadow Divers (Very good, history nerd book) Diary of Anne Frank (Very good) Unbroken…
on “Ask HN: What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?” ↗I have been mildly disappointed by Tartt's follow-up works, but even more disappointed by her pace. Since TSH was published in 1992, she's written only two other novels: * The Little Friend, in 2002, which is set in her native Mississippi; and * The Goldfinch, in 2013, which won big prizes (including a Pulitzer), but is to my tastes inferior to the other two. Her once-a-decade pattern…
on “The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on” ↗