A review by lelis
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

3.25

Not too much to say about this one. Yanagihara has always been a divisive literary figure and her voice, often interpreted as problematic, loomed over the release of this massive body of work. The premise alone never interested me. I waited until I could borrow it from a friend, and maybe that initial disinterest is why I received it so negatively. I just couldn't engage with it on any level beyond indifferent. Maybe I have already tired of this new genre of pandemic-centrist literature., in which we all point shiny new metaphorical fingers at a very real-world trauma that we have all lived through.