I have read a fair amount of books in my life, but the way Yanagihara manages to depict pain and how it evolves alongside the people who feel it, the happiness, raw emotions and the humanity (both the positive and negative, irrational aspects) in which characters are portrayed I found exceptional, and objectively only saw in very few books.
Genre-wise I tend to stay mostly on fiction – literary, philosophical/existential, coming-of-age, historical; I do prefer longer novels to short-stories.
Any recs?
by allergic_to_peaches