Troubling Love

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  • A
  • woman
  • goes
  • home
  • to
  • Naples
  • after
  • her
  • mother’s
  • mysterious
  • death
  • in
  • a
  • “tour
  • de
  • force”
  • by
  • the
  • New
  • York
  • Times–bestselling
  • author
  • of
  • My
  • Brilliant
  • Friend
  • (Seattle
  • Times).Following
  • her
  • mother’s
  • untimely
  • and
  • unexplained
  • drowning,
  • which
  • was
  • preceded
  • by
  • a
  • series
  • of
  • strange
  • phone
  • calls,
  • forty-five-year-old
  • Delia
  • leaves
  • Rome
  • and
  • embarks
  • on
  • a
  • voyage
  • of
  • discovery
  • through
  • the
  • beguiling
  • yet
  • often
  • hostile
  • streets
  • of
  • her
  • native
  • Naples.
  • She
  • is
  • searching
  • for
  • the
  • truth
  • about
  • her
  • family
  • and
  • the
  • men
  • in
  • her
  • mother’s
  • life,
  • past
  • and
  • present,
  • including
  • an
  • abusive
  • husband.
  • What
  • she
  • discovers
  • will
  • be
  • more
  • unsettling
  • than
  • she
  • imagines,
  • but
  • will
  • also
  • reveal
  • truths
  • about
  • herself,
  • in
  • this
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • marked
  • by
  • “tactile,
  • beautifully
  • restrained
  • prose”
  • (Publishers
  • Weekly)
  • about
  • mothers
  • and
  • daughters
  • and
  • the
  • complicated
  • knot
  • of
  • lies
  • and
  • emotions
  • that
  • binds
  • them.“Ferrante’s
  • polished
  • language
  • belies
  • the
  • rawness
  • of
  • her
  • imagery.”
  • —The
  • New
  • Yorker“With
  • the
  • quick-paced
  • mystery
  • guiding
  • the
  • story,
  • Delia
  • explores
  • her
  • relationship
  • with
  • her
  • mother,
  • unraveling
  • memories
  • and
  • secrets
  • repressed
  • since
  • childhood
  • and
  • coming
  • to
  • terms
  • with
  • an
  • upbringing
  • filled
  • with
  • jealousy
  • and
  • violence
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • Troubling
  • Love
  • is
  • vivid
  • and
  • powerful.”
  • —Library Journal
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