Yanagihara never sought out literary stardom. I also relay that yesterday, after finishing A Little Life for the second time and while under the impairment of a sob-induced haze, I took a wrong turn out of the subway and accidentally alighted on Lispenard Street itself. It's one of the first things this reporter tells her when arriving at her apartment - architecturally stunning, meticulously decorated, stuffed with books, of course - which sits in another of her book's symbolic locations in downtown Manhattan. The entire story is so deeply rooted in place, and those places are the sites of such soul-crushing tragedies, that it's impossible to divorce Yanagihara, 47, from her infamous streets. They come to see where protagonist Jude spends the formative, troubled years of his early adulthood. Though it's just two blocks long, the abbreviated thoroughfare along the border of New York City's Tribeca, SoHo, and Chinatown neighborhoods is the site of pilgrimage for dedicated readers of 2015's A Little Life, the author's sleeper-hit second novel. Lispenard Street is precious to Hanya Yanagihara fans.
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