A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara’s sweeping novel A Little Life follows four college classmates – broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition – as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, A Little Life is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.