schaerk 's review for:

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

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Some people stayed home and hibernated during the Covid pandemic. Hanya Yanagihara wrote this gorgeous epic of a book, and seemed to do it with ease, if this book. is any indication. I was immediately engrossed from the beginning, though I felt like it started to drag in the middle, which landed the reader in the midst of the late 80s/early 90s AIDS epidemic. Even though it lagged in the middle, there was a particularly touching scene in which a group of gay men say goodbye to a friend who is dying of AIDS. The details were so evocative that I felt like I was in the r0om and observing what was happening. Looking forward to reading "A Little Life," and appreciating Yanagihara's writing style, which is deceptively easy to read, but dense with all shades of emotion.