Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter, narrated in the first person by university English professor Leda, ____ themes of motherhood, parental obligation and its impact on personal freedom, and the role of memory in perception of the present. Leda’s summer vacation at the shore becomes a ____ odyssey into her past; ____ with guilt about having left her daughters when they were young, she is ____ by reminders of them and constantly ____ events around that crisis. Her ____ observation of a Neapolitan family on the beach and eventual involvement with that family lead her to explore her feelings about her daughters and her mother, as well as herself as a mother. Leda’s “reading” of the Neapolitan family – ____ by her anxiety and her tendency to project her own experiences onto the family’s members -- ____ questions for the reader about her reliability as a narrator.

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