Italian author **Elena Ferrante’**s gutsy and compulsively readable new novel, the first of a trilogy, is a terrific entry point for Americans unfamiliar with the famously reclusive writer, whose go-for-broke tales of women’s shadow selves-those ambivalent mothers and seething divorcées too complex or unseemly for polite society (and most literary fiction, for that matter)-shimmer with Balzacian human detail and subtle psychological suspense. With so many literary heavyweights clamoring for attention this fall, it would be both easy-and a terrible mistake-to miss one more.
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