Other wounds are secret, self-inflicted Jude cuts himself, and will do so throughout his life.
Some of his damage is obvious: legs shattered in what he calls “a car injury” have left him with a halting gait and episodes of severe pain. Francis goes to college at 16, all he wants is to erase his previous life.
Hanya Yanagihara’s first novel, “The People in the Trees,” dealt with the dark consequences of scientific exploration her second, the gut-wrenching “A Little Life,” is smaller in scope but deeper, a tragic love story about the ultimate inadequacy of love to heal.
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