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A review by lunch
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
3.0
It's insane how many callbacks Ferrante references from the most obscure lines of the first book, the second. Unspoken as well. She unearths a plethora of parallels with a subtlety that you'll have to dissect through otherwise you'll miss them, and they'll stay buried in your subconscious. It makes me feel like I'll keep missing masterful details until I reread, and then reread again. It's a good thing I'm consuming these books like they're comics (her writing holds you at gunpoint).