“A Little Life” by Hanya somebody. Do not read. You have been warned.
Most of the 700 page book is taken up with the author physically torturing what seems to be the lead character. I got about 600 pages through before I gave up. So many people had liked it that I thought it must have some redeeming features. Nope. And a big chunk of the book is the author’s appropriation of gay men’s experience. As a member of that community that bothers me after a while.
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