![]() ![]() The three sections of To Paradise are actually telling the same story: the story of America's contradictory nature as the place that makes you want in, but would rather keep you out. What links these timelines is not causal succession, but thematic resonance. ![]() So, instead of reading this novel as one continuous plot across three centuries, one could read it as a mythical cycle, a retelling of itself with a common cast of characters repeatedly cast in archetypal slots. The three timelines might not even share the same world. Very much unlike such established referents as The Actual Star or Cloud Cuckoo Land, the characters in each section of To Paradise are not directly connected to one another: they are not descendants, or reincarnations, or admirers, or followers of previous characters. However, even if this is still a somewhat nascent tradition, what Hanya Yanagihara has done in her new novel To Paradise is already a leap forward. The multi-timeline epic saga is in vogue these days. ![]()
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