The Lying Life of Adults: A Novel

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY<br/>The Washington Post • O, The Oprah Magazine • TIME Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York Post • Kirkus Reviews • Harper’s Bazaar<br/>AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER<br/>In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity, where her guide is the unforgettable Aunt Vittoria.<br/>With this new novel about the passage from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante gives her readers another gripping, highly addictive, Neapolitan story.<br/>“Another spellbinding coming-of-age tale from a master.”—People Magazine