Book Your Summer Shop NowBook Your Summer Shop Now

The Little Friend

Paperback
$19.00
10|
Promotion message icon
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.
NATIONAL 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 his family remains devastated. So it i...

From the B&N Reads Blog

Spotlight on the Elusive and Brilliant Donna Tartt

Spotlight on the Elusive and Brilliant Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt might be one of America’s most mysterious contemporary fiction writers. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author rarely gives interviews, and when she does, she speaks little of her interests or routines. She also dislikes book tours, believing they detract from the very thing they’re meant to promote. She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, just a Sunday afternoon’s drive […]
Read More
Three Things You Missed When You Read The Goldfinch

Three Things You Missed When You Read The Goldfinch

In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, “Haters gonna hate hate hate,” which can translate into a bloody-minded contrariness when it comes to great successes: the more the world showers someone or someone’s creation with praise, the more some folks are going to take the opposing position and complain that they/it really isn’t all that amazing. In […]
Read More
Totally Mad for Southern Gothic? Five Books You’ve Got to Read.

Totally Mad for Southern Gothic? Five Books You’ve Got to Read.

I grew up in Colorado and went to college in Indiana, and yet somehow all of my favorite English teachers were from the South. They taught me to relish colorful storytelling, with dashes of gothic grotesque and decay, and dished me up heaping helpings of the good stuff, including plenty of Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale […]
Read More
The Child Author Fiona Barton Shares Her Favorite Cold-Case Mysteries

The Child Author Fiona Barton Shares Her Favorite Cold-Case Mysteries

Back To Top
Read More