A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
4.25 · 43 ratings · Published: 10 Mar 2015
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.
- city/urban 3
- New York State 3
- contemporary 3
- lgbtq+ 3
- literary fiction 3
- sad 3
- drama 2
- dark academia 2
- friendship 2
- coming of age 2
- classics 2
- dark 2
- realistic 2
- psychological 1
- family 1
- grief 1
- bildungsroman 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- mental illness 3
- abuse 2
- suicide / suicidal ideation 1
- format - reader age
- audiobook 3
- young adult 1
- book 1