095 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

Julia and Victoria discuss book three in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and explore the complications of living life according to your principles.

This is the last episode of Season 9! We’ll be back in late May with more books and more obsessions. In the meantime, you can watch our book-to-TV reviews of Pachinko on Buy Me a Coffee.

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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

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