Troubling Love

"A deeply observed, excruciatingly blunt novel." — The New Yorker

"The raging, tormented voice of the author is something rare." — The New York Times

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend, The Days of Abandonment) tells a story about mothers & daughters & the complicated knot of lies, emotions, & shared history than binds them.

Following her mother's untimely & mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling & disturbing revelations about her mother's final days.

This stylish fiction from the author of The Days of Abandonment is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book's central motifs. A story about mothers & daughters & the complicated knot of lies & emotions that binds them.