A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The word for this haunting novel is “interior.” Most of the action in the slowly-plotted narrative occurs indoors, and the book’s gravity rests in the characters’ interiority. Four young men—college classmates of various ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientations—remain bound in friendship over several decades. At the center: the unforgettable Jude, brilliant, strange and tortured. The depth of the abuse …
