The Days of Abandonment is a 2002 novel by Italian author Elena Ferrante.

One April afternoon, right after lunch, Olga’s husband announces that he’s leaving her. Olga is left alone to care for her kids and pick up the pieces of her shattered marriage and her sense of self. And that’s just the first page.

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