A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara • 2015
Devastation Rating
trauma grief friendship mental health literary fiction
Our Take
This novel should come with a warning and a month of therapy pre-booked. Yanagihara refuses mercy at every turn. What she does to Jude is unrelenting, operatic, and somehow deeply true. Friendship is the only grace here, and even that is not enough. Nothing is enough. That is the point.
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