The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History —a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times— The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant. In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a baby—was found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard....
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