A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara 2015

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
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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