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A Little Life is the best novel of the year. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. - Vox

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Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life may be the most profoundly moving novel I’ve ever read. But it reminded me of experiences I wouldn't wish on anyone.

"Be quiet! Don't cry! Shhh." I cried my way through Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life. Critics have called it "exquisite," "a masterwork," and "a tour de force"; Garth Greenwell describes it as "the most ambitious chronicle of the social and emotional lives of gay men to have emerged for many years." The novel — Yanagihara's second, after The People in the Trees —chronicles the relationships of four college buddies over three decades: JB, an artist; Malcolm, an architect; Willem, an actor; and Jude, a lawyer. Yanagihara records their peaks — all four achieve professional success — but…

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