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The Days of Abandonment
by Elena Ferrante
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After her husband abruptly leaves her, Olga finds herself alone in a Turin apartment with two children, a dog, and a life she no longer recognizes. As ordinary routines fracture, grief turns into anger, obsession, and a fierce examination of marriage, motherhood, identity, and the stories women are expected to inhabit. Ferrante’s intimate, unsparing prose stays close to Olga’s unraveling without softening its uglier edges. Dark, psychologically acute, and emotionally combustible, this is a compact novel about the terrifying distance between the self we perform and the self that remains when everything familiar falls away.
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