The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein: Conversation Starters

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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein: Conversation Starters

Critically acclaimed author Elena Ferrante writes The Lying Life of Adults. The book became a New York Times Bestseller and a National Indie Bestseller. The book also became a Netflix Original Series. 
The author believes that the story holds more weight than the name behind the story and prefers to write using her pseudonym. The book is the tale of a young girl who is on the brink of womanhood. The author expertly portrays the class divide, cruel standards of beauty, and masochism in a way that leaves the reader thinking about them long after they reached the end of the book.

A Brief Look Inside:

EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.

These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:

• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Nov 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220226240

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Introducing The Lying Life of Adults

The Lying Life of Adults is a coming-of-age story of Giovanna's teenage girl who lives with her parents in Naples, Italy. The book is set in the 1990s and talks about issues such as feminism, patriarchal society, and adolescence.

Giovanna's father works as a history teacher at a prestigious high school. He is an aspiring Marxist philosopher whose love and appreciation she desperately covets. Her mother is also a teacher of Greek and Latin languages and proofreads romance novels, as well. Giovanna is best friends with Angela and Ida, the daughters of her parents' best friends, the affluent couple, Mariano and Costanza. The little girl is adored by her father, who thinks she would grow into a charming and beautiful woman. One day, Giovanna overhears a conversation between her parents that shatters her life. Her parents discuss their daughter's school life and the various problems she has been running into lately. Her mother is sure that it has to do with adolescence. However, her father believes that his little girl was slowly turning into his estranged sister,