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August 26, 2003-5:45 a.m.
When Harriet Cleve Dufresnes was a baby, someone murdered her nine year-old brother, Robin and left him hanging in a tree in her backyard. Twelve years later as a summertime diversion, she decides to find the killer and avenge her brother’s death. Like her first book, THE SECRET HISTORY, Tartt weaves an atmosphere where the most absurd and unlikely events seem everyday and normal. It’s highly unlikely that I would find another context where two kids hauling a king cobra up to the top of an overpass in a Radio Flyer wagon and throwing it over so that it sails through the t-tops of a speeding Trans Am so believable. I wish this book could have gone on forever **Disclaimer: All characters in this diary are fictional. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, real or imagined, is purely coincidental and unintentional.** |
