I’m always re-reading parts of A Little Life (I’m silly like that) and with each re-read I always end up noticing little details that I missed before because they’re usually just mentioned very passingly and therefore are easy to miss.
New recent discovery from my latest re-read is that Jude was actually beaten with a BROOM HANDLE when he endured that one beating at the group home in Montana, and that he was so viciously beaten with it that it left splinters embedded into his back that had blisters form around them.











