A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara is a novelist and editor. Born in 1975 in Hawaii, Yanagihara moved to New York City in 1996 to attend Barnard College. After graduation, she worked as an editor at various publishing houses, including Doubleday and Knopf. Her first novel, The People in the Trees, was published in 2013. Yanagihara’s second novel, A Little Life, was published in 2015. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Yanagihara’s third novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published in 2019.

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A Little Life follows the lives of four friends – Willem, Jude, Malcolm, and JB – from their time as students at an elite New England college through to their adult years in New York City. The novel is an intimate and often harrowing portrait of these characters as they grapple with issues of love, loss, betrayal, and, ultimately, redemption.

A Little Life is a novel that is both sweeping in scope and intimate in its portrayal of the characters. The novel is told from the perspective of Willem, Jude, Malcolm, and JB, and we see their lives unfold through the years, from their time as students at an elite college to their adulthood in New York City.

The novel explores themes of friendship, love, loss, betrayal, and redemption, and is ultimately a moving and uplifting story about the power of human connection.

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