![]() ![]() ![]() Willem spends much of his adulthood pursuing sexual relationships with women, before he recognizes his desire for Jude and acknowledges their friendship as a life partnership. Of the novel’s main characters, only JB unambiguously embodies an immediately recognizable and unambivalent gay identity. Three of them form their primary physical and emotional bonds with other men, though sometimes in ways that challenge the usual nomenclatures. The book follows a group of four men-Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm-over three decades of friendship, from their years as college roommates to the heights of professional success. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, which was released in March, is one of the most buzzed-about books of the season, hailed as a “tour de force,” “extraordinary,” “elemental and irreducible,” “astonishing,” and the work of “ a major American novelist.” But no coverage of the book I’ve seen has discussed it as a novel fundamentally about gay lives-as the most ambitious chronicle of the social and emotional lives of gay men to have emerged for many years. ![]() Dear Therapist: My Roommate Is Cheating on Her Boyfriend With Me Lori Gottliebīut I think it’s possible that novel has happened, even if no one has quite realized it yet. ![]()
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