Beza Temesgen’s Reviews > A Little Life > Status Update

Sickening Yanagihara, absolutely sickening.

I don’t even know where to begin after Jude’s attempt, his relationship with his body and willem is going train wreck. That’s irrelevant to what is brewing in my head; Dr Taylor??? I feel as though out of the 600 current pages this storyline is the most terrifying. The idea behind Jude purposely engaging in prostitution to make ends meet just because that is all he has established throughout his childhood..

I’m distraught. That’s it, nothing else.

It’s just been getting darker and darker. I’ve left with the detailed image of Jude ending his life which really took me by surprise considering the amount of time he’s yearned to commit. What Caleb did to him broke me entirely and now learning slowly about Brother Luke, his storyline is beginning to make some sense. I just feel bad not only for Jude but for the other figures in his life. Depression is evil.

just beautiful writing of the ugliest and most depressing things— harold’s back story about his son jacob?? i’m crying again and it’s for sure gonna get worse after this

x=x 😭😭 i am again taken back by yanagihara’s writing but THIS IS BREAKING ME
the axiom of equality instates that jude will forever rest his dehumanized form no matter how much his life changes for the good, “hell always inspire disgust and meant to be hated”. i need jude to escape caleb but not just that he needs to regain a sense of hope before it’s too late. he has outlets like harold and willem

i just let go my first teardrop.

within the axiom of equality, the boys have jumped to their 4th decade, revisiting their progress in life. the ending with jb’s huge craze undergoing his withdrawal to now following the boys—especially jude— to see change but not much.. this book is slowly coming together and i don’t appreciate what i have pictured for its fate.. IM SO SCARED

UNWRAP THIS WITH ME — jumping ahead i just learned that jude was a prostitute when he was younger oh my god, with every sentence i come close to understanding and empathize with jude’s strangeness and abnormalities. we get his physical disability but his psychological traumatic experiences speak for their own. understanding that 1) he’s a victim of SA and now 2) had to engage with older men to survive.. wow

JB’s fallen through—addicted to meth and coke— , Jude is still self destructing, Malcolm seems okay for (married) and Willem is making it big time in the film industry, lost in understanding his place with his friends and why he longs Jude. JB needs serious help but don’t they all? I feel as though these 4 cannot survive without each others company even when JB resented them during their close friendship.