Level – Advanced
Plot – 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.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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Hear from Hanya Yanagihara – a writer whose fictional worlds hold readers in thrall, long after the final page – in conversation with Jason Steger about art, extremity and the language of friendship.
Over the course of two very different novels, Hanya Yanagihara has established herself as a formidable and versatile new literary voice.
Her debut, 2013’s The People in the Trees, had Yanagihara leading readers to a fictional Micronesian island nation, and to a turtle with life-giving flesh, weaving a magical