Outstanding.

Most of the books I've read focus on the individual psychology of characters—their feelings, their wants, and their obstacles. But Ferrante manages to capture so much more in the interrelationship between the narrator (Lenu) and Lila, an envy felt so deeply that it both endears and alienates the two from each other. Even more, she captures the inner workings of an entire community, and how each new generation is bound up both by familial obligations and history itself. By the end, it's almost suffocating, and you're rooting for the characters to escape their provincial upbringing and strike out on their own.