The Misplaced Daughter

“Elena Ferrante will blow you away.”-Alice Sebold, writer of The Pretty Bones

From the writer of The Days of Abandonment, The Misplaced Daughter is Elena Ferrante’s most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood but. Leda, a middle-aged divorce, is alone for the primary time in years when her daughters depart dwelling to stay with their father. Her preliminary, sudden sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial prevalence. Ferrante’s language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and he or she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.