A Little Life

Book Club 2016

I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars, but there's way more to that rating. I both loved and loathed this book; I think it's perfect as it is but also think it could easily be 200 pages shorter and that some of its more disturbing elements (it's BRUTAL) reach a point of diminishing returns and strain credulity, but at the same time I wonder if it would still be as impactful without those things. There's a lot to think about in the depictions of race (or strange lack thereof?) and in the blithe privilege of literally every character. Like I said, it's not perfect, but also it kind of is?