ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "The New York Times" "The Washington Post" "The Wall Street Journal" NPR "Vanity Fair" "Vogue" "Minneapolis Star Tribune" "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" "The Guardian " "O, The Oprah Magazine" Slate "Newsday" Buzzfeed "The Economist" " Newsweek" "People" " Kansas City Star" Shelf Awareness "Time Out New York " " Huffington Post" Book Riot Refinery29 "Bookpage" "Publishers Weekly Kirkus" WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "A Little Life" follows four college classmates broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. ".