“A Little Life” was horrible and I loved every single page. Ugh! Where do I begin? The story of Jude’s life is devastating, horribly traumatic, and at many times, hard to read, but Yanagihara tells it in such a beautiful way, I ended up crying happy tears more often then I did because I was sad or angry. The good, happy moments were stunning and made me feel so happy. I don’t know how to summarize this book and if someone asked me what it was about I’d give them a list of trigger warnings and tell them it’s a long, but perfect book, and that they have to read it (if they’re able). While it definitely could’ve been shorter, I fell in love and empathized with every character who was good to Jude, even JB. Harold and Andy feel so important to me. Julia is the only character I found to be underdeveloped, but I also want to know more about everyone. I finished this book 45 minutes ago and I feel very sad at the moment. I also feel content; I learned so so much from this book, more than I could’ve imagined. I will be thinking about it for a very long time.