A review by skepticcurmudgeon
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

5.0

Incredibly powerful story that explores both the depth of depravity and the heights of love, acceptance and compassion people may inflict or bestow upon each other. Compassion is a particularly apt word as the healthy truly share in the suffering of the damaged. In Ishiguro's recent book he explores that forgetting is maybe more essential than memory. Yanagihara doesn't hide in fable and metaphor rather laying both good and evil, truths and self deceptions, nakedly for the reader to experience. I think ultimately the book is hopeful that even the most damaged of us can find love even if only temporarily-- even if it can't heal all in our little lives.