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Passport Book Club

Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Join us at the Passport Book Club! Reader's will travel vicariously through various books to new countries and cultures. This month we will be reading The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante.

Join us at the Hoboken Library's Passport Book Club

Tuesday, May 26 at 11am in the Small Programming Room

Get your passports ready, we're heading to Italy!

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 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: a Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and a Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between both in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape.

Print copies will be available to borrow at the 2nd floor Info Desk. eBook & eAudio editions are available on Hoopla Digital and the Libby app (BCCLS & eLibraryNJ)

Please email Rosary if you have any questions or want a copy set aside for you.

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