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One of the things my editor and I did fight about...is the idea of how much a reader can take. To me you get nowhere second guessing how much can a reader stand and how much can she not. What a reader can always tell is when you are holding back for fear of offending them. I wanted there to be something too much about the violence in the book, but I also wanted there to be an exaggeration of everything, an exaggeration of love, of empathy, of pity, of horror. I wanted everything turned up a little too high...
Hanya Yanagihara
In some ways. I do want to do something very different with each book...I think this book is linked to the first but approaches it in a completely different way. The first book was much chillier, more remote. And intentionally so. I don't think it was a book that anyone loved and I didn't love it either. It was not a book that was meant to inspire love in the way that I think this one is.
Hanya Yanagihara
Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
Hanya Yanagihara