"The writer is immensely self-aware and her frankness is stunning."--The New York Times

"Remarkable, lucid, austerely honest."--The New Yorker

"If that's not a great literary novel, I don't know what is."--Kate Christensen, ELLE

"Ferrante describes the violent rupture of a marriage with all the inner tranquility that you might associate with Medea. When her book's heroine has the temerity to invoke Anna Karenina approaching the railroad tracks, the analogy is actually well earned."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Ferrante's novels are tactile and sensual, visceral and dizzying."--The Guardian

"Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante's work prepares you for the ferocity of it."--Amy Rowland, The New York Times

"Ferrante's voice feels necessary."--Mona Simpson, author of Casebook and Anywhere But Here

"Elena Ferrante: the best angry woman writer ever!"--John Waters, director

"Ferrante] describes the female experience so intimately and so vividly that the reader feels like she could (and should) know the writer personally."--Kat Stoeffel, New York Magazine

"Ferrante puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She's marvelous."--Richard Flanagan, Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North