The Lying Life of Adults

I have read few novels that so thoroughly explore the the dark depths of adolescence. Spiraling from a comment Giovanna's father makes about her looks into an obsessive re-examination of the blissful childhood world she thought she understood, Giovanna pings between disillusionment with the human failings of her intellectual parents and curious discomfort with the world she discovers in Naples' seedy districts as she forges a relationship with an estranged aunt. Even without fully understanding the references to and commentary on Neapolitan social dynamics, this story was intensely relatable to me as someone who was born around the same year as Giovanna and experienced the 90s at a similar age. Even a week after finishing it, I am still thinking about this book.