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very colonial

“In the dark she said happily: its raining, I love that we’re together, I’m not sleepy, please lets talk all night. But Angela shushed her, said that she, on the other hand, was sleepy, and after a few laughs there was only the sound of the rain against the windows” (95)

“I looked for a few seconds at her face, without makeup, then stared at the floor. Vittoria seemed to me to have a beauty so unbearable that to consider her ugly became a necessity”

im nearing my author completion with Elena Ferrante and!!! this woman is a lesbian!!! i know it! so much more is clicking with Lila and Lenu in the neapolitan novel series…

call me a crazy darn feminist but the attack on mrs joe reaaaalllllyyyyyy reminds me of the ‘lobotomized woman’ trope