A review by trin
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

2.0

Even though this book is deeply unpleasant, I recall appreciating it when I read it (in 2013, the year it came out). The world building is imaginative and genuinely scary. But having read Yanagihara's follow-up, A Little goddamn Life, I actually like this less, because now I feel like I know the degree to which she just likes traumaporn. I weirdly miss the innocence with which I approached the horrors in this book, before I knew the author would only continue to return to this well; it is her sole source of water.