Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have

important lessons

a funeral director

Already an enormous bestseller in Asia

The central message here is that love is not ‘out there’

seemingly healthy woman is struck down by a respiratory attack as she heads home on the subway

Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying

Hindu India shook as hundreds of thousands more followed their example

And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story

and of everything that comes after success: Money

Kirk and Rusty

Carol Roberts—tortured and left to die in agony

navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters