RaveThe CommonToo heavy to take in a suitcase or carry on a plane, [this 720-page book] demands to be read at home. It was worth not leaving the house. Ninety pages in, I was hooked by the beauty and pain in the writing and had already cried twice. ... As a woman who went to all-girls school most of her life, I don\'t pretend to know much about male friendships, but Yanagihara describes the intimacy, tensions, and love between these four men so tenderly that months after I finished the book, I still find myself thinking about and missing them as if I know them. It’s not just me ... Even after hundreds of pages, you too will want more.