There's Willem, who is born to Swedish immigrants who worked as farmhands. Instead, A Little Life explores just what the title implies - the little bits of the little lives, so big when looked at close up, of four characters who live together in college and keep alive their friendship for decades after. We don’t see them fulfilling the stereotypes of college dude culture. We don’t see these men gallivanting about town trying to get laid, or getting drunk and watching football games. Yanagihara builds her characters into individuals so real you become are certain you know them. The topic seems pass-worthy - until you start reading. But once you're in the author's hands, you'll love every page of the world she builds.Ī Little Life centers on four young men living in New York City. Yanagihara's sophomore effort - which I'll tell you right up front does not suffer from the famed second-novel slump - takes us through emotionally fraught territory that's charged and nuanced at once. I received the second novel from Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday), with one caveat: "It is heavy." I understood immediately that the implication was physical - the tome is 720 pages - but had a feeling, too, that the warning extended beyond the literal.
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