Yanagihara creates an up-ended Jamesian world in a house in Washington Square

Novel of the Week

Hanya Yanagihara’s dazzling third novel moves away from the painful subjects – sexual abuse, paedophilia and self-harm – that she explored so disturbingly in her divisive best-seller A Little Life (2015), labelled by some as trauma porn, and to a lesser extent in her first novel, The People in the Trees (2013).

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