in Little Life" is about the lifelong friendship between four men in New York who met at college. Jude St. Francis, brilliant and enigmatic, is the charismatic figure at the center of the group - a self-sacrificingly loving and at the same time internally broken person. As if into a black hole, the friends are sucked into Jude's dark, painful world, whose monsters gradually emerge. "A Little Life" is an exhilarating epic about trauma, human kindness and friendship as true love, told with a barely comprehensible urgency. It goes to the darkest places that literature can venture and always breaks through to the bright light.