My Brilliant Friend at The Shacks in The Colony

Where: Sunday, October 26th at The Shacks Dining and Dog Park. This is an outdoor venue, so 🤞🏻 for good weather (we'll adjust if needed). Meet us on the patio, we'll likely be between OMG Tacos and Growlers. 📚

What:
This book is popular with readers and critics alike (it took the #1 spot on the NYT critics list). Let's have a vibrant discussion on the themes, lessons, and our feelings about this work.❤️

About the book:
My Brilliant Friend is the first novel in Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan Quartet. Set in a poor yet vibrant neighborhood of 1950s Naples, it follows the intertwined lives of Elena, an ambitious, bookish girl, and Lila, her brilliant but volatile friend. As the two navigate childhood, adolescence, and the pull of education, love, and family, Ferrante weaves an intimate portrait of friendship against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Italy.

Critics Say:
Ferrante is a writer of such clarity and power that she makes other novelists appear clumsy. — The Economist

Length and Style:
331 pages with short chapters.

Trigger Warnings:
This work contains depictions of violence, abuse, poverty, and sexism.