Little Friend at once remote and uncannily

at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century

Between babysitting her bratty brother

Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm

but maybe a bit of a love hater)

Little Friend at once remote and uncannilyNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. "Destined to become a special kind of classic." The New York Times Book Review 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. Twelve years later Robin's murder is still unsolved and