Lyrical and epic, "To Paradise" by Hanya Yanagihara tells a story spanning three centuries, all while interconnecting three imaginative versions of history. First, in an alternate-history version of 1893 New York, people are supposedly free to live and love however they please, but social pressures remain. Next up is 1993 New York ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, where a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older partner and hides a number of secrets. Finally, the story jumps into the future to 2093, where the world has collapsed into totalitarian rule, and a scientist's granddaughter tries to investigate her husband's disappearance and figure out what comes next.