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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.** |
