![]() But To Paradise makes you question everything – climate change, totalitarianism, freedom and marriage. It’s true that we turn towards books and movies to seek comfort. Yanagihara drops you at the edge of the forest and announces that her job is done. Therefore, the title is almost an oxymoron. All these stories end as you expect – badly. An older man feels betrayed when he learns about his boyfriend canoodling with another person behind his back. In To Paradise, which is divided into three sections (Book I, Book II, Book III), some people find love easily, but they can’t go for a leisurely walk in the park with their lovers, as society doesn’t reward queer folks for being themselves. It listens to whatever the hell it wants. You look for something called hope and then move on. And if it doesn’t, well, it’s just bad luck. Love is a strange thing, isn’t it? Nobody knows how it works. ![]() To Paradise follows the lives of men who fall in and out of love. ![]() If you’re the kind of person who’s okay with the act of sobbing in public, you will be fine even on a beach. You’ll need a room of your own to collect your thoughts and weigh the air around you as you fight to put back tears spilling out of the eyes. ![]() ![]() Yanagihara’s works of fiction cannot be read on beaches. It’s, like the earlier work, not an easy novel to read though. American writer Hanya Yanagihara’s latest novel appears as formidable if not more than her 2015 bestseller A Little Life. ![]()
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