False adult life

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Giovanna, the only daughter of two professors, enjoys a happy childhood in the affluent neighborhoods of Upper Naples. But one day, she is shocked to overhear a conversation between her parents, in which her father compares her to Vittoria, the ugly and despicable aunt. Thus begins Giovanna's search for Vittoria in the vulgar and base streets of Lower Naples. Between high and low, Giovanna teeters, sometimes falling, sometimes climbing, exposing the falseness of adult life, panting after answers that might inspire a path to redemption. Elena Ferrante: "Perhaps she is the best novelist of our time. Her prose is as clear as crystal, her stories both instinctive and profound."