The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book took me longer to finish than i anticipated.

perhaps somewhere it gets a bit draggy. perhaps this adult life the ladies are facing were, as it was, draggy…and just leaving life, facing whatever challenges, trying to survive in a hard world.

elena’s life turned out fine at the end, and sadly lila’s, not so much, i guess.

such turnaround. how the ladies’ cycle of life is like the opposites of each other. like when lila’s was having a much better life with a booming computer business, elena’s seem to go in a turmoil with a divorce leaving her and her daughters trying to lead a life back home, and a fling with and old crush. and then it moves the other way round. the only time they were parallel in their lives were when they were both pregnant with baby girls a month’s apart.

the peak of the story seems to be the loss of lila’s daughter without a trace, which i find it frustrating more than sad. because why would this happen? where is the logic of this story going? how is it possible that the child disappeared without a trace. it was like a jigsaw puzzle that doesnt seem to fit in anywhere in this whole story. more than anything, i just wanted the child to be found and alive and i wanted a happy ending for both lenu and lila!

you know what, the author needs to have a #5 for this series and tell me that they found lila and tina! please!

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