Book guide
A Little Life
Four friends build a life in New York as decades of love, loss, addiction, and the long shadow of childhood trauma test the bonds between them.
Genre and trope pairingsContemporary FictionFound familyContemporary FictionLGBTQ+Contemporary FictionMental health repContemporary FictionDisabled repContemporary FictionTrauma recoveryContemporary FictionDysfunctional familyContemporary FictionGrief journeyLiteraryFound familyLiteraryLGBTQ+LiteraryMental health repLiteraryDisabled repLiteraryTrauma recoveryLiteraryDysfunctional familyLiteraryGrief journey
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About A Little Life
The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. JB, Jude, Malcolm and Willem. Four young men move to New York broke, adrift and buoyed only by friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem; the sardonic painter JB; Malcolm, a frustrated architect; and Jude, brilliant and enigmatic – their centre of gravity.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- self-harm
- suicide
- suicidal thoughts
- suicide attempt
- child abuse
- child sexual abuse
- rape
- sexual assault
- domestic abuse
- addiction
- eating disorder
- ableism
- grief
- child neglect
- child death
- transphobia
