Ferrante’s works are epic and shattering – but also knowing, putting into words that which is so hard to explain. Happy Hour is what it says on the tin: a sweet cocktail, a delight in diary format to be enjoyed over a few evenings. In other ways, the books are worlds apart. And as the novels develop, the friends give each other the courage to resist social expectations, to rebel. Perhaps Isa and Gala, Lenu and Lila bond over the secret knowledge that while these exchanges feel wrong, there are few better options for making ends meet. However, Ferrante in particular suggests these transactions slowly rot one’s spirit.
In both tales, women use their sexual currency to obtain financial capital, in some way subverting the misogyny they face. In Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Lenu and Lila come of age in a violent postwar Naples, embroiled in fights between communists and fascists, with (unhappy) marriage being one of the only means of escaping poverty.
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The friends are broke and get by on the favours of men who buy them free drinks, pay for their cabs and give them gifts. In Happy Hour, we meet Isa and Gala, two carefree young women visiting New York for a summer. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. I devoured Piranesi in two days, but have been thinking about it for much longer. Clarke does not spoon-feed you exposition instead, you must let yourself be carried away on the tides of her storytelling, until you yourself feel like an eternal and timeless inhabitant of the House.
Piranesi spends his days fishing, crafting, admiring the numerous statues of the House, and writing his journal, whose entries are delightfully honest, succinct, and beguiling. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is a dreamlike venture into questions of alternate universes, new worlds and old intelligence, told in the form of diary entries of the eponymous narrator. Travis Alabanza won the 2023 Jhalak prize for None of the Above, published by Canongate (£16.99). I can’t wait for this novel to be published, so I can talk about it with everyone I know. The way Dinan writes about love, loss, growing up, transitioning and our bodies took my breath away. A loud crying in contrast to the quiet sadness of this book.
Not one singular tear to brush off, but embarrassing flood-gates-open crying tears. Yet when I finished an advance reading copy of Bellies by Nicola Dinan I had to sit down and let myself cry. I often want to, but the tears just never flow. I’m not really someone who cries a lot, I wish I cried more. Read more Travis Alabanza, writer and performer
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