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In her first solo audiobook narration, Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei delivers Ferrante's ("The Neapolitan Novels") coming-of-age story with warmth and empathy—qualities desperately sought by intellectually curious 12-year-old Giovanna, whose viewpoint Ferrante crafts as both unsparingly observant and winning. Formerly a model daughter but now in the throes of puberty and too distracted to study, Giovanna earns such disappointing grades that her despairing father mutters: "She...Log In or Sign Up to Read More