A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

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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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

HANYA YANAGIHARA lives in New York City.

PRAISE

“Astonishing.” — The Atlantic

“Deeply moving. . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship.” — NPR
 
“Elemental, irreducible.” — The New Yorker

“Hypnotic. . . . An intimate, operatic friendship between four men.” — The Economist
 
 “Capacious and consuming. . . . Immersive.” — The Boston Globe

“Beautiful.” — Los Angeles Times

“Exquisite. . . . It’s not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork—if anything that word is simply just too little for it.” — San Francisco Chronicle

DETAILS

Paperback | 832 pages