“Two years before leaving home, my father said to my mother that I was very ugly.” Giovanna almost spits the opening sentence of The Lying Life of Adults, the Netflix show based on Elena Ferrante’s latest blistering beach read.
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"The Lying Life of Adults," the latest novel by the famously pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante, has been adapted one might say inevitably for the screen as a six-part Netflix series. It f.