A review by wretchedtheo
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Did not finish book. Stopped at 9%.

It's pretentious and uninteresting. The writing style is so bland and unremarkable; I couldn't tell the stupid characters apart. Besides, the author writes from perspectives she can't possibly understand (black men, gay men) as if she understands them perfectly and it gets on my nerves. Girlie pretty much said black identity comes with constantly feeling agressive and "wounded" (sorry for yourself) and implied that it's possible to feel "post-black" (???) because you were raised with money and somehow that cancels out any racism you might experience (??!?!!?) Like wtf. Not to mention the cliches. "he avoided asking because he was afraid of the answers he might hear" COME ON. Honestly it reads like YA but for 30 year olds that never developed past reading YA.