Morning Book Discussion

Seminar Room. Discuss great titles and make new friends! This month, group leader Megan Nicholls will lead a discussion of The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante. Copies will be available at the Circulation Desk for checkout prior to this event. This Month’s Pick: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape. (description courtesy of amazon.com)