A Little Life

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal NPR Vanity Fair Vogue Minneapolis Star Tribune St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Guardian O, The Oprah Magazine Slate Newsday Buzzfeed The Economist Newsweek People Kansas City Star Shelf Awareness Time Out New York Huffington Post Book Riot Refinery29 Bookpage Publishers Weekly Kirkus WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 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 an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagiharas stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.