Troubling Love This Elena Ferrante’s first novel and like her later novel The Lost Daughter there’s a lot here that feels very familiar if you’ve read the Neopolitan Novels. The next novel Days of Abandonment is very different. In this novel, we begin with our narrator finding out that her mother’s body has been found in the water, drowned, from an apparent suicide. She begins retracing her mother’s life in the recent years and weeks, and begins to confront the specters of her mother’s life that were […]