“It is an addictive, powerful, and disquieting miscellany of piercing intelligence, restless questioning, compulsive rumination, equable uncertainty, courteous self-possession, quiet generosity.”

“It is an addictive, powerful, and disquieting miscellany of piercing intelligence, restless questioning, compulsive rumination, equable uncertainty, courteous self-possession, quiet generosity...Ferrante’s prose, beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein, is exquisitely balanced, full of enchanting resonance.”

Read the full review in The National.