Her 2015 novel, 'A Little Life,' dealt with the. To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review of one of this year's most anticipated books - 'To Paradise' by novelist Hanya Yanagihara. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him-and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances.

In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). A book signing with Yanagihara will follow. Yanagihara will be joined in conversation by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of The New York Times.

With impeccable control, she examines the rot at the heart of the American experiment, reimagining the nation’s legacy at three different junctures in an alternative history. To Paradise opens in 1893, New York, but not the Gilded Age version of history rather, it’s part of Yanagihara’s imagined Free States, a place where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems), reads the book’s blurb. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara Buy on Bookshop Doubleday, 720 pp., 32.50 The critic Maggie Doherty has written about the way many prize-winning contemporary writers produce work that has just. A bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, To Paradise is about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. To Paradise, Yanagihara’s dense, ambitious new novel, is a leap forward: she constructs a wildly speculative story that enthralls even as it challenges readers. Hanya Yanagihara, author of the highly acclaimed and modern- day classic A Little Life, comes to BAM for the launch of To Paradise.

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