A Little Life

Name: A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Four college friends in New York. One carries a secret that destroys him. The most devastating novel of the decade.

The case against

on the suffering
“the sheer quantity of degradation in her story was likely to alienate readers”
Daniel Mendelsohn · The New York Review of Books, 2015
on the length
“it’s a long very long character study - over 700 pages of misery”
three stars · Goodreads
on the missing history
“Characters use the internet and cellphones, but no world events occur.”
three stars · Goodreads
on the money
“Money is just pouring out of their bank accounts.”
three stars · a book blog