Literary
A Little Life
Four friends move to New York after college and build careers over several decades. The novel gradually narrows to one of them, Jude, whose past he refuses to discuss.
- First published
- 2015
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a long, immersive, devastating novel about friendship and trauma, and are prepared for it.
Skip this if you are sensitive to graphic abuse and self-harm; it is relentless and very distressing.
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