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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

March 8, 2025 by Zirza 10 Comments

As my kids would say.  A Little Life is a behemoth of a book, focused on the lives of four college friends as they make their way in the world. There’s Willem, attractive and easy-going, who wants to be an actor; Malcolm, an aspiring architect; JB, a promising your artist; and Jude, an enigmatic lawyer with a brilliant mind and a troubled past. We follow their lives as they grapple with fame, addiction, relationships and trauma.  At least, that’s what google will tell you if […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: a little life, childhood sexual abuse, coming-of-age, hanya yanagihara, new york, NSFW

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: a little life, childhood sexual abuse, coming-of-age, hanya yanagihara, new york, NSFW ·
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July 7, 2016 by narfna 20 Comments

Fuck this book. And it started out so well! The writing is actually gorgeous. I can see why many, many people like this book. Really, Hanya Yanagihara knows how to use language. Unfortunately, the story she told was not worthy of it. The longer I read this book, the more I dreaded reading it, the worse my feelings got as I read, and the more I hated it for existing. Then I read a bunch of interviews by her and hated the book even more. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little life, award winners, Fiction, hanya yanagihara, narfna

narfna's CBR8 Review No:89 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little life, award winners, Fiction, hanya yanagihara, narfna ·
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This Might Be My Book of the Year

January 9, 2016 by ModernLove 11 Comments

Yesterday I got home from work around 4:30. I was about 300-pages deep into A Little Life and wanted to keep going. Just before midnight, I closed the book. This is a 736 page novel and it was then, amidst the crumpled tissues and empty whiskey glass, that I realized I never even ate dinner. This book had captured me so completely that I sat on my couch for five and a half hours just to finish it. So if you want to know what kind […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little life, hanya yanagihara, modernlove

ModernLove's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little life, hanya yanagihara, modernlove ·
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