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A Little Life

A Novel

by Hanya Yanagihara

Narrator Matt Bomer

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Length 28 hours 38 minutes

Language English

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“A Little Life is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. But reader beware: it is also one of the most heart-rending, devastating, and ultimately through-and-through sad; the kind of book that, upon finishing, will have you staring out the nearest window in utter despair. If you’ve never, on some quiet Sunday, had even the most fleeting desire for a book that will leave you haunted and depressed, this one isn’t for you. ”
— Molly • Maria's Bookshop

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“Truly a realistic and remarkable story of friendship and chosen family. Sometimes ugly, sometimes tragic, but completely beautiful. I say to everyone who asks, there was my life before this book, and now a life after. ”
— Matt • Carmichael's Bookstore

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“Hanya Yanagihara's novel, A Little Life, is one of the best books I've ever read. First, this is not a cozy story: I was disturbed and you may be as well. As with many books, A Little Life speaks to the beauty of friendship and the power of love. But via main character Jude, it also wants us to come to know that there will be lives we cannot save –that some traumas are too deep, too poisonous, to heal completely. There are painful scenes...and also many that are touching and joyful. The unwavering love of Jude's friends is palpable. Yanagihara, however, wields amazing control over us with each page turn. Her language, and pacing are masterful. I could not leave her characters at night and I often took them with me as I went about my day. But it's her ability to slowly and thoughtfully get her reader prepared to make it to the end of her heartbreaking journey that's astounding. And I say this as someone faint of heart. A Little Life: masterful writing and a story that will enter your bones and fill your heart. ”
— Victoria • BookShop West Portal

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About the author

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE

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 Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.