The novel is set in Alexandria, Mississippi, where during the celebration of “Mother’s Day,” a little boy named Robin Clay-Duffrin was found hanged on a forked branch in the yard of his own home. Twelve years later, the mystery of Robin’s murder is still unsolved, and his family is devastated by the bitterness of loss. That is why Robin’s sister, Harriet—a strikingly intelligent and astonishingly determined girl, strongly influenced by the works of R. Kipling and L. Stevenson—sets out to find his killer. With the support of her close friend Heeley, Harriet will break the unshakeable pillars of life and society itself and plunge headfirst into the story of their family’s loss.
Full of sharp plot twists and “restless, absurd humanism worthy of Dickens” (“The New York Times Book Review”), the novel “The Little Friend” is the result of the writer’s labor—of astonishing charm, endowed with an extraordinary talent.