Troubling Love

Troubling Love

"A deeply observed, excruciatingly blunt novel."-<i>The New Yorker</i><br /><br />"The raging, tormented voice of the author is something rare."-<i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days.<br /><br />This stylish fiction from the author of <i>The Days of Abandonment</i> is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book's central motifs. A story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them.