02/16/2020 - 02/24/2020
I think there’s a profoundness to be desired throughout this novel, and people will either pull it or they won’t. I enjoyed the prose, but everything felt like it was constantly circling back, practically exhaustively. I actually almost did not finish this book a long while ago, but I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully others, as clearly shown by the high praise, enjoy it a lot more than I did :-)
Synopsis
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.
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