My Brilliant Friend
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The Vibe
Elena and Lila grow up in a violent, impoverished Naples neighborhood in the 1950s. One is studious and careful. The other is brilliant and wild. Their friendship — competitive, loving, destructive, essential — becomes the most dissected female relationship in modern literature. The start of the Neapolitan Quartet.