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A Little Life: A Big Feeling

A critique of Hanya Yanagihara's novel

By Jenifer NimPublished 3 years ago • Updated 3 years ago • 1 min read
A Little Life: A Big Feeling
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Why was it so popular?! Unrealistic, melodramatic, depressing, unrelentingly bleak, overly long – 800 pages of emotional torture-porn. What did we learn from it all? Friendship good, abuse bad? What a revelation! The author desperately tried to make me feel something, and I did: anger. I f***ing hate this book.

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I haven’t written anything for many, many years. Please be kind! 🙏

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    Written by Jenifer Nim