The Books Oracle
by Elena Ferrante
A woman on holiday becomes unsettlingly fixated on a young mother and her daughter, a fascination that unravels her own buried ambivalence about motherhood. Ferrante's sharp, unsparing novel examines the parts of maternal experience no one wants to admit exist—resentment, selfishness, and the self lost to obligation.
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