The Neapolitan Novels

Does this mean I regret reading these books? Absolutely not. To read a sentence, a paragraph, a story, a book that sucks you in in your entirety, making you frown and shake your head at the choices of the characters, weep for their pain, judge their internal world fiercely, gasp at certain things they do and agree with them on certain others – that fulfills my deepest needs from the act reading.

Six cups

The child, searching for any scrap of uniqueness, for definitions in her confused search for identity in the world she had landed in — and who, as I’ve mentioned before, did not have much else going on — clutched the number seven proudly to her heart, as if losing it meant losing a vital fraction of the little that set her ever so slightly apart from ordinary.