View a FREE sample

Part I (Pages 1 - 60)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ferrante, Elena. The Lying Lives of Adults. Europa, New York, 2020.

• This book was written from the first-person point of view and in the past tense.

• In Part I, Giovanna was the young teenage narrator, the only child of parents Nella and Andrea, two beautiful and successful parents living in Naples, Italy.

• Giovanna loved both of her parents; her father Andrea was a university professor and writer and her mother was a teacher and editor.

• Giovanna begins her narration by stating that two years before her father left their family, she overheard him telling her mother that she, Giovanna, was very ugly.

• Andrea told Nella that Giovanna was getting the look of his estranged sister Vittoria, who Giovanna had never met but knew that her father had a terrible relationship with.

• The...

(read more Chapter Abstracts)

This section contains 6,312 words (approx. 22 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample