Julia and Victoria talk inevitability and unreliable narrators in The Story of the Lost Child and celebrate finishing Elena Ferrante’s iconic Neapolitan series. They try and fail to solve the unsolvable ending.

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante

The Lying Life of Adults on Netflix

The Dave Chang Show (podcast)

10 Things I Hate About You

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Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Gilead by Marilyn Robinson

Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson

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