Jaime G.

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their 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 bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

Habits make up the majority of the way you live, and there are times when your way of living does not match who you are anymore. Often, that habit was born out of a need to cope with some sort of stress/overwhelm or life challenge, however you now know that those coping skills have gone awry, and they are no longer serving you.