In some ways, this is a work whose fascination with entropy – the breakdown of societies, of property, of the body – makes its job almost impossibly hard we feel as though we are standing in the centre of ever-decreasing circles. each section conjures a vivid, often startlingly reconfigured America. There are few surface resemblances between A Little Life, Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted second novel, and To Paradise, but in both she is deeply, compulsively interested in characters for whom the world seems unattainable, whose histories and temperaments coalesce to render them marginal, held back. intricately assembled themes and intensely anxious preoccupations.
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