“For Judith Thurman’s review in The New Yorker of Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lying Life of Adults. The review refers extensively to the whole of Ferrante’s bibliography, so I could not resist working on a sketch that shows the author’s general universe: the mother/daughter relationship; the violence within that relationship—the mother’s embrace is also a gesture of control; daughters becoming their mothers, which you can see through the daughter adopting her mother’s gesture; and the threatening presence of men ‘… into corners, from which they lash out, often viciously.’”
