A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life is a powerful, heartbreaking novel about friendship, trauma, and endurance. Centered on four college friends in New York, it gradually unfolds the haunting past of Jude St. Francis, whose struggles with pain and survival shape the story. Sweeping and deeply emotional, it is a modern classic that explores love, suffering, and the search for hope.