![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was very hesitant to pick it up because I didn’t know if I had the capacity to process a storyline surrounding a similar COVID-19 experience to our own, but the concept of alternative history that the book is advertised under intrigued me. The book is the zeitgeist of the pandemic novel, a series of stories centered around the upending nature of viruses. ![]() Yanagihara’s newest novel, “To Paradise,” elicited a similar response. The novel operated on such insane highs and desperate lows that I was frankly left trying to recover emotionally. “A Little Life,” which attracted a strong fanbase but received mixed reviews from critics, operated on extremes and had a profound emotional impact on readers. The BookTok canon is both particular and chaotic, filled with young adult novels like “The Song of Achilles” and messy romance books like “Red, White, & Royal Blue.” Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 book “A Little Life,” though not in the same genre, is still adored by those in the BookTok community. Like many other book lovers, I found myself trapped in the confines of “BookTok,” the community of TikTok users who share and discuss book recommendations, at the height of quarantine. ![]()
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