A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Four college friends in New York. One carries a secret that destroys him. The most devastating novel of the decade.
The case against
Jude's torments arrive with actuarial impossibility: monks, counselors, doctors, one predator after another, then fame and a perfect partner, then more torment. Yanagihara strips out politics, headlines, and the calendar, so the suffering floats free of any world. Seven hundred pages of escalating agony reads as either devotion or manipulation; the book gives you no third option.
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