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A Little Life
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
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.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
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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Tiffany
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“Sobbing as I write this review. This book will stay with me forever. It is so beautifully written and if you love character development and diving deep into character’s lives like I do, you’ll love this book.
I can move through a book silently reading, but that literally didn’t happen at all reading this. I’m so surprised. I had every single emotion while reading this book truly laughing out loud in public like a crazy person 🤣 crying so deeply 😭 and buzzing with so much love ❤️ I think I love this book for a few reasons —
1. How beautifully Hanya describes a perfectly imperfect relationship that I found myself even imaging the same beautiful moments in my former relationship. Love is fucking tough but that’s what makes it so beautiful.
2. The topics discussed are very heavy, but again they are written in such a well-researched way that gives grace with education and raw emotion felt.
3. Ah the meaning of life and what keeps us going on day to day. Again, a topic written beautifully on from Hanya. In short, I really just think it’s love. Giving and receiving love. Both on a small level at home and on a global level if you have that reach.
Going to sleep smiling from this one 🥹”
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“This book lays down emotions so comprehensively. You feel extremely saddened by what Jude has been through and is continuously going through. When I was closer to finishing the book, I often wondered why do people rave about this book? I knew it was very raw and saddening that made people cry (myself included). But I was intrigued by how it would end? From the early chapters I felt it would obviously end with Jude killing himself. But as I neared the end I felt that would be too obvious of an ending and maybe Willem dies instead. And boom in the next few pages, that happened. Is this the best book I’ve read? No. But it surely is not the worst one or close to being a bad book. It was a tearjerker but the reason I would not give it a perfect 5 star rating is because the hopeful person in me wanted something better for Jude I guess? The pain was relentless and at one point some pages were just Jude cutting, cutting and cutting. As sad as it was, it became boring to keep reading about his cutting. And JB took the back seat later on. It was so cruel of Jude to want even Harold to trade places with Willem in death. The man who accepted him despite not knowing all that he had endured. That was a hard to read paragraph. But I guess that was the point, life is not all rainbows and butterflies and we do not get the ending we deserve. We only learn to make peace with the ending we are served. And maybe that’s why Jude let go. Maybe this is real life after all. And maybe that’s why it will not be a 5 star for me coz I don’t want to give up on the hope that there are happy endings in real life too.”Start a Book Club
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