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I am still so impressed with Yanagihara's ability to weave this immense tapestry, filled with such beautiful expressions of friendship, love, trauma, and humanity. I can certainly see why people would dislike this book. The pain is relentless. It is true I shy away from such gross brutality in reality, but to be honest I find myself drawn to fictional glimpses into suffering and see them as chances for reflection.

In my update just this morning I wrote that the slow discovery of Jude's past, parceled out so deliberately and slowly by Yanagihara, is "delightful and terrifying". Of course, "delightful" is not the right word. But there is an intensity to it, knowing that there is something terrible lurking up ahead and not knowing how near nor how bad it is exactly. Seeing how bad it is already, this isn't going to be pretty...