A little life, Hanya Yanigihara.
The second book by the author Hanya Yanagihara, was published in 2015. She just released the third one in 2022 with not-so-great reviews. A fantastic book, absolutely recommendable but NOT for the faint of heart. Development, trying not to give too many spoilers: the book essentially revolves around the life of Jude St. Francis (a lawyer) and his three lifelong friends: Willem (an actor), JB (a painter), and Malcolm (an architect) in New York. The central character, Jude, is a person with a tumultuous past, marked by terrible childhood traumas that he has not been able to overcome. In one way or another, the entire book revolves around him and his friends' efforts to help him. Although I found the beginning a bit confusing in terms of who's who (I'm not entirely clear, for example, who is Black and who is White), as often happens when there are many characters introduced all at once, the characters gradually become well-defined. If this happens to you, stick with it. Childh...