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In Naples in the early 1990s, twelve-year-old Giovanna Trada overhears her father Andrea disparagingly liken her appearance to that of his estranged sister Vittoria. This sends Giovanna into a search for Vittoria on another side of Naples to discover the nature of the family's fallout.
Upon release, The Lying Life of Adults was generally well received. According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 51 critic reviews with 22 being "rave" and 23 being "positive" and 4 being "mixed" and 2 being "pan".[9] In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a rating of 4.19 out of 5 from the site which was based on 15 critic reviews.[10]
In its starred review, Kirkus Reviews praised Goldstein's "fluid" translation and wrote, "Giovanna's nascent sexuality is more frankly explored than that of previous Ferrante protagonists".[11]
Publishers Weekly called Giovanna a "winning character" but nonetheless wrote that the novel "feels minor in comparison to Ferrante's previous work".[12]
A review in The New York Times stated that the book "evokes for me all the ordinary, warring paradoxes of intimate life."[13]
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