A Little Life by Hanna Yanagihara

New York Times best seller. Little life follows for college classmates, broke adrift and buried only by their friendship and ambition as they moved to New York and search of fame and fortune. While they are relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bond and a masterful depiction of love in the 21st century, this stunning novel is about families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. 

paperback edition.