Let's Discuss My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferraute!

****NOTE: This will be our annual potluck holiday dinner. Leeann has graciously and generously volunteered to host the event in her home. Please complete the Sign Up Genius for the dish you will bring - https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C44A9AA2FA2F49-53234464-annual.

It will also be book selection night...just in time for Christmas! ;) Bring 1 - 2 of your recommendations for everyone to vote!

Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship.

This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women.