A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Paperback, Vintage/Picador, January 26, 2016; approx. 832 pages) tells the emotionally intense story of four friends—Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm—from college to middle age in New York City. As their careers and lives unfold, Jude’s traumatic past emerges at the story’s heart. Yanagihara explores themes of friendship, trauma, survival, identity, and love with unflinching honesty. A New York Times bestseller, shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and National Book Award, and winner of the Kirkus Prize, this novel delivers an unforgettable portrait of human endurance