To Paradise

By Hanya Yanagihara,

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Why read it?

1 author picked To Paradise as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There are so many reasons to love this book, but my top is the story of David Bingham, who lives in New York City with his older lover and who is secretly a descendant of Hawaiian royalty.

The book makes three big leaps in time, and David’s portion is set in the early nineties. As the AIDS crisis rips through their community, he privately tries to contend with the pain of being abandoned by his father, who left his family to join the Hawaiian independence movement.

When I set out to write my book, I wanted to write a contemporary…

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