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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
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