Of course, a paradise is meant to keep people out, not allow people in. After the inauguration in early 2017 I was, in retrospect, really moved and struck by the Muslim ban and this idea of America as a paradise and what exactly that meant. I really started thinking about it before Trump got elected, in the fall of 2016, so it didn’t directly have anything to do with the election. It took me a couple of years to figure out what I would say in this book and how. Your first book, “The People In The Trees,” took 18 years to write “A Little Life” took 18 months. Ahead of this week’s publication of “To Paradise,” we caught up with her on the phone from New York where she was at the office. In addition to writing huge books, Yanagihara is editor in chief of the New York Times’ Style Magazine “T”. The same New York house features in all three “books,” and similarly named characters - many Davids, Edwards, and Charles’s with the surname Bingham - provide a multi-generational continuity. “To Paradise” runs to a little more than 700 pages and is set in New York in three different time periods: 1893, 19. Now, Yanagihara, who was raised in Hawaii, has written another Big American Book. When she wrote “A Little Life,” American writer Hanya Yanagihara created an unlikely cultural phenomenon - an 814-page book that became a pop-culture touchstone and on the Booker Prize and National Book Award shortlists, among other awards.
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