In the final volume of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, two women from a rough Neapolitan neighborhood continue to shape—and unsettle—each other’s lives as they move through motherhood, love, ambition, and the changing currents of Italy in the late twentieth century. Intimate, charged, and deeply observant, the novel traces the complexities of friendship, identity, and the difficult bonds that tie people to their past.