erinmalonepoet 's review for:

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

4.0

---

This novel is about a woman whose husband leaves her for a much-younger woman. The couple has two children who are left solely in her care, even though she's left incapacitated by anger and shock. The sheer ferocity of this writing is stunning; the downward spiral of the protagonist seemed very real to me.