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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Genre: Adult, Contemporary and Literary Fiction   Publisher: Picador   Publication Date: 10th March 2015   Rating: 4.5/5 Goodreads Blurb:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22822858-a-little-life Friendship starts when four students become roommates during their first year of college. Jude is the reserved law student/mathematician, Willem is the aspiring actor, JB, the painter and Malcom, the architect. They are a diverse bunch who are drawn to each other as friends as well as their ambitions to make it in the big city: New York. The story spans decades, the highs and lows of careers, friendships, life, and addresses what it means to be adults in modern day society. The beating pulse of the story is Jude himself whose life before college has scarred him for the years to come and his efforts to move on from it while trying to maintain relationships with those that matter.  Thoughts:  This is an outpour of my feelings after reading ‘A Little Life’: o