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Brilliant and invigorating, even more so than the first book. Ferrante’s precise portrayals of the fissures in a friendship, caused by class differences, patriarchal oppression, and poverty, are perfectly juxtaposed against Elena’s poised adolescent perspective, which is at turns cautious and naive, intelligent and brutal, sibilant and entirely, captivatingly, curious.