STEPHANIE'S PICK
A beautiful meditation on friendship. A harrowing portrait of abuse and suffering. Malcolm, JB, Willem, and Jude were my best friends the year I read it. -SC
MAGGIE'S PICK, TOO
So, I succumbed to the internet hype and gave this a try. I have to say, it is absolutely worth it! Please take all the content warnings into account before you give it a go—this novel is absolutely not for the faint of heart. However, besides the tragedies which befall these characters, Yanagihara writes beautifully about male friendship and young adulthood in the modern age. Make sure to have a stack of tissues on standby! -MR
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Paperback | 832 pages | 5.11" x 8.00"
