PLEASE read the trigger warnings before reading this book!!

trigger warnings for this review: mentions of suicide

hanya yanagihara: someone who doesn’t believe in trigger warnings and thinks that “living” is not always the answer to people’s problems.

i just wonder what the point of this book could possibly be when the author holds such beliefs?????

i think it is so harmful to perpetuate the idea that death by one’s own hand is the only solution :/

the prose was beautiful and i am so indescribably attached to these characters, but i just don’t understand why writing this was necessary. at all.