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The Hanya Yanagihara Principle

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The novelist tends to torture her gay male characters — but only so she can swoop in to save them.

Photo: Amanda Demme This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. By the time you finish reading A Little Life, you will have spent a whole book waiting for a man to kill himself. The novel, the second from author Hanya Yanagihara, begins as a light chronicle of male friendship among four college graduates in New York City before narrowing its focus to Jude, a corporate litigator whose decades-long struggle to repress a childhood of unrelenting torments — he was raised by pedophiles in a monastery, kidnapped and pr

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