![]() What is your interior life when you've been sexually betrayed? The way that female friends fuse and compete. One of Ferrante's strengths is she writes about things that are very, very intense, but not typical. Much of it transpires in a single apartment building where Olga almost dissolves. Olga - a middle aged wife and mother - neglects her kids and obsesses over her husbands sexual acts. In that book, Ferrante heroine - in first person - goes to extremes of feeling and almost bodily harm when she discovers her husband's affair with a younger woman. But before these books, there was an even greater won by Ferrante called "Days of Abandonment." First published in the US in 2005. The two best friends - Laila and Alina - growing up in a hardscrabble postwar neighborhood, forcing each other out of their backgrounds through their intellect, competing over brilliance. One is called "Days of Abandonment" and the other is called "Sleepless Nights." Everyone has been talking about Elena Ferrante's "Naples" trilogy. The two books that I was interested in - they were seemed very related to me. Hi I'm Alissa Quart, author of "Republic of Outsiders" and the editor-in-chief of the journalism nonprofit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. ![]() Alissa Quart recommends Elena Ferrante's "Days of Abandonment" and Elizabeth Hardwick's "Sleepless Nights." ![]()
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