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To paradise / Hanya Yanagihara.

Yanagihara, Hanya, (author.).

Summary:
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness.
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). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. 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. 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. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can't exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385547932
  • ISBN: 0385547935
  • Physical Description: 708 pages : maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Maps on lining paper.
Subject: Gay men > Fiction.
American Dream > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
United States > Race relations > Fiction.
Genre: Alternative histories (Fiction)
Dystopian fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 41 of 43 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Abington Community Library FICTION YANAGIH (Text) 50687011759209 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION YANAGIH (Text) 50686016126638 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library F YAN (Text) 37268003123585 AHMFL Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F YAN (Text) 33240004930510 Adult Fiction Available -
Bangor Public Library F YAN (Text) 75011000368933 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Yan (Text) 85131001806869 CACM Fiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library FICTION YANAGIH (Text) 50688010805464 Adult Fiction Available -
Dalton Community Library FICTION YANAGIHARA (Text) 50689090006684 Browsing Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults YAN Fiction (Text) 34001001407327 Adult Area Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC YANAGIHARA, HANYA (Text) 36446002056169 Adult Fiction Available -

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