Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Book 3)

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Third in a series that began with My Brilliant Friend, this novel was an international best seller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Readers have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons.