Hanya Yanagihara – To Paradise
The Follow-up to the acclaimed A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise spans three different centuries and three different versions of the American experiment. In an alternate world of 1893 America, residents of a Free State New York are allowed to love whoever they want, or so it seems. While in 1993, Manhattan is in the midst of the HIV epidemic and a young man – living with his older, wealthier partner – is hiding from his troubled childhood. Then, in 2093, the world is besieged by new plagues and rules by a totalitarian government. During this time, a powerful scientist’s granddaughter tries to navigate her damaged life without him as she tries to solve the case of her husband’s mysterious disappearance.