Elena returns to Naples with her children. She returns for a man, but in the end stays for Lila, as she takes a flat in Lila's building. We see the two women go through the ordinary events of middle age - raising children, burying parents, drifting away from lovers - and the not-so-ordinary - the murder of childhood friends, the continued impact of organized crime on day-to-day life, and the disappearance of a child. There are unsolved mysteries here that pull you through the text. In the end, Elena and Lila felt like my friends, and I hated to say good-bye to them. An especially gorgeous ending.
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