Troubling Love

A solid debut novel. Other Ferrante novellas feel like rough drafts for her magnum opus that is My Brilliant Friend, but Troubling Love feels so different from it all and I greatly appreciate that. I think she does keep on hitting me over the head with the whole daughter IS mother deal, the last line made me say “yeah...duh.”

dnf at 34%.

Look, i enjoyed elena ferrante's neapolitan novels a whole lot but her other works dont seem to match up to it. Her work is complex and always has meanings behind her stories but perhaps they're not for me.