A review by silverbirch
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A gritty and real reflection on mental health, trauma and friendship. Follows Jude and three friends navigating their lives, with no detail spared. Questions the idea of why we’re attracted to tragic media in the first place. Very hard to read at times, and at points felt as though the characters were subject to whatever was the most emotionally damaging situation the author to come up with, but then maybe that was the point. Perhaps exists as an example of why sometimes tragic media should not be consumed.
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