"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.
I can only concurr with others that have praised this book before me. The language spellbound me right from the start and I cannot recall how many times I was in awe of Yanagihara's storytelling.
It is truly a heartbreaking story told with such detail and grace.