{"product_id":"my-brilliant-friend","title":"My Brilliant Friend","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Elena Ferrante\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#1 Best Book of the Century - New York Times\u003cbr\u003eThe Neapolitan Quartet Book One\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times–bestselling “enduring masterpiece” about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51574398746791,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/3875\/6519\/files\/mybrilliant.jpg?v=1794326688","url":"https:\/\/ruthsbookstore.cjh.org\/products\/my-brilliant-friend","provider":"Ruth's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}