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The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
5.0

Even more compelling than "My Brilliant Friend," "The Story of a New Name" will consume you until you finish it. Exhausted, you will crawl on your hands and knees back into your ordinary life, grateful to return. Ferrantes's gift for language, her understanding of psychology and the human heart, and her attention to the details of everyday life are unequaled. A masterwork of literary fiction.