A review by dembury
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

3.0

Reading this is like having someone who is a subpar storyteller catch you up on drama from a different group of friends of theirs: it’s entertaining, and may even teach you something, and you wanna hear how it all ends, but the fact that you’re being held at arms length the hold time creates such a separation from you and the material that it’s impossible to fully become immersed.