It’s only January and I may have already found my favorite book of 2023 (and I’m not even half-through the story!).

Truth to be told, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara has been sitting on my bookshelf for years now. Somehow I managed to forget about it, and it was only when I was moving out of my old apartment that I placed it back at the top of my “want-to-read-soon” pile.  

It’s a thick book, with more than 720 pages of the most brilliant writing, and probably one of the best bitter-sweet fiction stories I have ever read. I will probably share more impressions once I’m done reading it. For now, I would like to write down this little nugget (one of many!) by Yanagihara that touched my heart and reminded me of the concept of kintsugi introduced in one of my previous blogs:

“Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.” — Hanya Yanagiha

Kindly,

Neva.