This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents
either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Hanya Yanagihara All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday,
a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,
Toronto, Penguin Random House companies.