NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âĒ A stunning âportrait of the enduring grace of friendshipâ (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 âĒ MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST âĒ WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A Little Life follows four college classmatesâbroke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambitionâas 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 Yanagiharaâs stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.