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Troubling love, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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Troubling love

Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

During the funeral I was surprise to find myself thinking that at last I no longer had any obligations to worry about her. Right afterward I was aware of a warm flow and felt wet between my legs. Following her mother's untimely death, Delia sets off on a breathtaking odyssey through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her native Naples in search of the truth about her family. Reality is buried in the fertile soil of memory, and Delia digs deep to reconcile the past with the mysterious events leading up to her mother's death. Spurred by a series of anonymous telephone calls, Delia reconstructs her mother's final days and with every new discovery must face the possibility that her mother was not at all the person Delia imagined her to be. To learn the truth and to untangle the knot of lies, passions and memories that bind mother and daughter, Delia must return to her roots, to the Naples of her childhood