A Little Life
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- Mar 10, 2015
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art wo...
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A Little Life. Tried it when it was first published. Could not get more than 10 pages in. Then tried again a year ago and could not put it down. Had a huge and profound impact on me. So much so that I think about the characters, and the book, every day.
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. You can stop here.
This book is about TRAUMA, all caps. So if that's not what you're looking for, fair. But it's an incredible read.
TRUST. ME.
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
(From Goodreads)