Channeling both Henry James and Edith Wharton, this section focuses on a man of privilege bridling against the conventions of his era in order to feel real love, perhaps to his peril.īook Two, "Lipo-Wao-Nahele," most closely resembles actual U.S. Instead he is drawn to Edward, an impoverished but clever man around his own age. The protagonist, David Bingham, lives in the Free States, roughly equivalent to the Northeastern states today, where same-sex marriage is legal and wealthy white families practice arranged marriage, the better to perpetuate their privilege.īut David cannot quite imagine a future with the elderly, sweet but dull man, Charles Griffith, chosen for him by his grandfather. In Book One, "Washington Square," Yanagihara envisions an alternate 19 th-century history for the U.S. The novel is divided into three books, each featuring characters with the same names living in the same house in New York City but in different dystopian eras. "To Paradise," Hanya Yanagihara's ambitious follow-up to "A Little Life," a National Book Award finalist, is an epic in size and scope.
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