![]() ![]() Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. In this final novel, she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city’s obscure magnetism. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. ![]() Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both are now adults with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. ![]() Elena Ferrante‘s The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women-the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. ![]()
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