The Calamitous Lies of Adulthood
In Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults , the narrator—an adolescent girl named Giovanna—begins her story by recounting the time she heard her father tell her mother “that I was very ugly.”

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The Calamitous Lies of Adulthood
In Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults , the narrator—an adolescent girl named Giovanna—begins her story by recounting the time she heard her father tell her mother “that I was very ugly.”