Its narrator, Elena Greco, recalls her Neapolitan childhood and adolescence, in the late nineteen-fifties.

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The novel's narrator belongs, like its author, to the black upper-middle class.

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In this tight, discreet narrative, which drifts from one memory to another as if love had its own time-scale, the author movingly describes how Jim freed the narrator from the phantoms of her past and the righteousness of her family and friends.

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