“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara*:
It may be dark and traumatic, and it was published in 2016, but it is one of the most moving books I’ve read in the last 2 years, it is heart-wrenching, gripping, at times unbearably sad and yet so full of love, beauty, compassion and friendship. Four young college friends move to New York to incredibly successful careers: as an artist, architect, actor, and Jude as a litigator. The story focuses on Jude: broken, full of secrets, his body a web of scar tissue.
Yanagihara shows how queerness can still be an act of extreme shame that suffers in silence and self-destruction. The soothing balm to all that suffering and anxiety is friendship.
It may be dark and traumatic, and it was published in 2016, but it is one of the most moving books I’ve read in the last 2 years, it is heart-wrenching, gripping, at times unbearably sad and yet so full of love, beauty, compassion and friendship. Four young college friends move to New York to incredibly successful careers: as an artist, architect, actor, and Jude as a litigator. The story focuses on Jude: broken, full of secrets, his body a web of scar tissue.
Yanagihara shows how queerness can still be an act of extreme shame that suffers in silence and self-destruction. The soothing balm to all that suffering and anxiety is friendship.
*Hanya K Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974) is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii.
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