The first, Washington Square, is set in the 1890s in a fictional New York. To Paradise is arranged in three discrete but interrelated parts. Most readers, I think, will concentrate on the book’s longest section, the third, in which Yanagihara writes of a series of pandemics and the way they reshape society in the decades ahead.
I could tell you, for instance, that it’s about colonialism and racism in America today or that it’s a queer counterfactual history (and future) that asks what would happen if sexuality were destigmatised (and then restigmatised) or an elegy for the lost kingdom of Hawaii. T o Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara’s vast, complex follow-up to her Booker-shortlisted A Little Life, is a novel of many faces.
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