Do you know anyone who’s just obsessed with what they were like as a little kid? They can talk for hours about their elementary school teachers, their friends from the neighborhood, first crushes, friendship betrayals, every time their parents were unfair to them, how mean their siblings could be, etc? Aren’t they just exhausting? My Brilliant Friend is the first volume of Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, which followst two female friends throughout their entire lives. At the beginning, set in 2010, 60-something Elena Greco receives word […]
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