That is until Robin's sister, Insufferable Genius Harriet who was only six months old at the time, decides she must solve the mystery of her brother's untimely death. For twelve years, the crime remains unsolved, an uncomfortable piece of history that the Cleves prefer to never discuss.
In the town of Alexandria, Mississippi, on Mother's Day 1965, the Cleve family suffers an immense tragedy: the murder of nine-year-old Robin Cleve Dufresnes, hung from a tree in his own backyard when no one was looking. The Little Friend is a 2002 novel written by Donna Tartt, following her immensely successful debut The Secret History a decade earlier.
"It's awful being a child," she said, simply, "at the mercy of other people."
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