A review by mossgreenmug
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

3.0

The Neopolitan Novels mean so much to me, so it was extra disappointing that I didn't love this book. It has all the things I've come to know and love so much about Ferrante (complex inner mind of a teenage girl, sex / obsession / worship, adults with fatal flaws, brusque writing), but it wasn't nearly as satisfying. Can't say much really happened, and I didn't find Giovanna's story a fraction as interesting as Elena's.