Hanya Yanagihara to Sue Townsend

[LouisTherouxattheorgy]

I've just finished back to back A Little Life and The Boys in the Trees in the last month.

I've had to go on a full Adrian Mole binge to recover myself, thinking it would be a pallet cleanse. I'm not sure it is! I hadn't gone full Sue Townsend since I was about 15, and it's just a different kind of head fuck!

If you want to continue the head fuck with another self-pitying not-quite-as-clever-as-he-thinks-he-is young male, you might give Hillbilly Elegy a quick skim (read it in the library so the author doesn't get any money). The bit on (I think) page 144 about how he started reading sociology textbooks in his mid-teens is hilarious and tragic and very very Adrian.

Some quite good observations and some really - what's the word - oh, weird, that's it, thanks Coach - weird conclusions.