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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

The third book in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay follows up with the two girls in the first novel — one who left the man she married at 16 and now has a young son, the other who published a successful novel — as they struggle to make a way for themselves as women in the 1970s.

Out Sept. 2

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