A Little Life tells the story of a lifelong friendship between four men in New York who met in college. Jude St. Francis, brilliant and enigmatic, is the charismatic figure at the center of the group - a selflessly loving yet internally broken person. Like a black hole, the friends are drawn into Jude's dark, painful world, where its monsters gradually emerge. A Little Life is both a realistic novel and a fairy tale - a rapturous epic told with an almost incomprehensible urgency about trauma, human kindness, and redemption. It ventures into the darkest places that literature can explore, while continually breaking through to the bright light.