Struggling with Friendship, Identity, and Love in 'A Little Life'

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 29, 2016

This is a rebroadcast from an interview that originally aired on March 15, 2016.

Hanya Yanagihara discusses her novel A Little Life, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The story follows four college friends as they pursue their careers in New York City. One of the friends, Jude, is haunted by a horrifying childhood trauma. The novel charts their professional and personal lives, relationships, tragedies and addictions over the course of 40 years.

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