"Hanya Yanagihara's second novel asks for a kind of immersion at odds with the practices of contemporary attention-deficit culture. The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship." "This exquisite, unsettling novel follows four male friends from their meeting as students at a prestigious Northeastern college through young adulthood and into middle age. Like the axiom of equality, A Little Life feels elemental, irreducible-and, dark and disturbing though it is, there is beauty in it.” Yanagihara’s novel can also drive you mad, consume you, and take over your life. And having upset our expectations once, Yanagihara does it again, by refusing us the consolations we have come to expect from stories that take such a dark turn…. “… A Little Life becomes a surprisingly subversive novel-one that uses the middle-class trappings of naturalistic fiction to deliver an unsettling meditation on sexual abuse, suffering, and the difficulties of recovery. In A Little Life, it's life's evanescent blessings that maybe, but only maybe, can save you." "With her sensitivity to everything from the emotional nuance to the play of light inside a subway car, Yanagihara is superb at capturing the radiant moments of beauty, warmth and kindness that help redeem the bad stuff. Here is an epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured.”
“Yanagihara’s immense new book, A Little Life, announces her, as decisively as a second work can, as a major American novelist. FINALIST FOR THE 2015 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION
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