The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt is not a prolific writer, only three books to her name, but they are powerful, each in their own way.  She is way overdue for a new book, but when you write instant classics, I guess you can go at your own pace.  The Secret History is a book that I desperately need to reread but I’m afraid to at the same time.  What if it doesn’t hit the same, what if I do not care for the characters as I did before?  They are a group of people that I still think of and worry about like they are friends that I just haven’t seen or heard from in a long while. It takes place on the campus of a small New England college in the classics department.  If ever there was a group designed to be against the world, it is those studying a dead language and the history and culture that go with it.  Insular and isolating like a little cult.  I would join if they would let me.

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