The eleventh apartment had only one closet, but it did have a sliding glass door that opened onto a small balcony, from which he could see a man sitting across the way, outdoors in only a T-shirt and shorts even though it was October, smoking.
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A little life
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by Hanya Yanagihara
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome -- but that will define his life forever.
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LGBTQ novels, Coming of Age, Literary, Sagas, Families, Fiction, Amerikanisches Englisch, child abuse, sexual abuse, Dysfunctional families, Memory, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Sagas, Male friendship, FICTION / Literary, Memoria, Familias, Amistad, Ficción, Friendship, Social life and customs, Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age, New york (n.y.), fiction, American literature, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2016-02-14, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Domestic fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Gay men, Familles, Romans, nouvelles, Homosexuels masculins, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, Male friendship -- Fiction, Dysfunctional families -- Fiction, Memory -- Fiction, New York (State) -- Social life and customs -- FictionPeople
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A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller.
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