karinlib 's review for:

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
4.0

Ferrante has the ability to draw you and not let you go. I could not put this book down until I finished. The started out slowly and cautiously, but it picked up speed like a freight train that is late arriving.

Olga's husband announced one April afternoon that he was leaving her. It has happened before, so she thought it was just one of those times when he would be gone for a few days. This time he did not come back.

This is the fifth book I have read by Ferrante, and again, I love her writing, pulled in, but yet frustrated by her characters.