TY - BOOK AU - Ferrante,Elena TI - Those who leave and those who stay: middle time SN - 9781594139956 PY - 2016/// CY - Farmington Hills, Mich PB - Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning KW - Female friendship KW - Fiction KW - Single mothers KW - Women novelists KW - Social classes KW - Amitié féminine KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - Mères de famille monoparentale KW - Romancières KW - Classes sociales KW - fast KW - Naples (Italy) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Naples (Italie) KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Italy KW - Naples KW - Large type books KW - Domestic fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - gsafd N1 - "Original title: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta"--Title page verso N2 - Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s, they are still very much connected to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond ER -