A Little Life
A Novel
- Themes
- Enduring friendship, Chosen family, Childhood trauma
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in enduring friendships and families chosen for themselves
- Readers drawn to relationships that deepen over decades
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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.
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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.
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Family Sagas
- Literary Fiction
- Coming-of-Age
- Authors
- Hanya Yanagihara
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- March 10, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Family Sagas