A review by tablereader234
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

5.0

As with Yanagihara's other books, some research into the darker content contained in this novel may help those considering a read can be helpful. But I love this book not only for the mystical world created on it islands, but for its unflinching depiction of scientific racism/colonialism, historical revisionism, and the slow descent into evil that seems so logical at the time. And from a narrative perspective, the withholding of one specific part of the story at the very end at the hands of the main character's acolyte is brilliant. A good story in its own right and a thought-provoking companion to considerations of historical events in colonized countries.