His father is a Bingham and a descendant of Hawaian Royalty. David is much younger than Charles and keeps his heritage a secret.

In 1993 the Aids Epidemic is at a high, with many of Charles’s friends having the disease. In 1993, we meet David and Charles’s descendents, both living in Washington Square. This opens the idea of freedom, he isn’t free to make his own choices and be part of his heritage. However, David is in love with someone else, someone his family wouldn’t approve of and someone he is not free to marry. But just what is free? David Bingham lives with his grandfather in Washington Square, when he is introduced to Charles Griffith, a widower whom his grandfather is hoping he will marry. New York in 1893 is an alterate New York, part of a number of states that have joined together to make ‘Free States’, with their own laws where same sex realtions are legal and all children are educated.The Bingham family are one of the founnding families of this Free State, and have many charitable institutions to help those less fortunate. To Paradise has three very different stories that are all linked by family lineage and place, a house in Washington Square New York. Set over three hundred years in a very different New York than we know, this is a powerful and at times frightening read that is very revelant to our world today. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life is one of the best books I have ever read, and in my opinion she should have won the 2015 Booker Prize, so To Paradise had a lot to live up to and it did in every way.

To Paradise has to be one of the most anticipated novel of 2022, and one I have been looking forward to for over six months.

And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him – and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador Main Market edition (11 Jan.

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