Brilliant and creative, each is flawed in some important way. The book begins soon after they have graduated and ends decades later. This is the story of four college friends and roommates-Willem, Malcolm, JB and Jude-who presumably, although it is only implied, went to Harvard. (See below for my reasons why you should read a book that is so melancholy and deeply sorrowful.) More than anything, it is absolutely, totally heartbreaking. There is (extremely) disturbing violence. It is more about misery than joy, and it sucks the reader down into that misery like quicksand. This is not a book I would casually recommend to anyone.
It is also the saddest, most upsetting book I have read-perhaps ever.
This truly exceptional book by Hanya Yanagihara is a literary masterpiece.
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