Wednesday, May 24, 2017--Caceres, Spain
I finished reading A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara. It was a finalist for the 2015 National Book
Award, and after reading all but one of the finalists including the
winner, I would say this is the book that SHOULD have won the award.
Reading it is like being on a roller coaster of life as sections veer
from happiness to depression, from descriptions of horrible experiences
to joyous occasions, from disappointment to success, etc. There are
lots of negative things that happen in this book, but as this review in the New Yorker
explains, they come in small doses and the awful truths are very slowly
revealed to make it palatable. Also, it is one of the most realistic
novels I have ever read in that it accepts what is happening with
explanations of WHY it is happening rather than condemnation for what is
happening. I felt I could truly understand why things people sometimes
do are actually done by them. Anyway, it is really well written and a
very good, if difficult, subject. I gave it 5 stars out of 5.
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