A Little Life: A Novel

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4.6
209 reviews
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736
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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.

Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
209 reviews
John O'Brennan
May 31, 2023
glorious and tragic, hollows you out with sadness and leaves you feeling clean and pure and raw. although to be fair it's more of a fantasy book than a fiction; the world that jude and friends inhabit is more of an idealized world created in the campus of a liberal arts college than the real one (horrific suffering of jude aside, obviously). either way, it's a fantastic read with a delightful cast of characters who all have well fleshed out relationships with each other and the world that they inhabit.
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Kate Abitona
May 4, 2023
Full of love, joy, and trauma. A lifelike epic beautifully written (you get to know the characters deeply) on how intricate and agonizing life can be.
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Carissa Chang
December 10, 2023
A book that's so well written with so much anguish. It will tear you up inside and out. It was hard to read some parts, but I had to finish it. You become so invested in the characters that you're rooting for them.
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HANYA YANAGIHARA lives in New York City.

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