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One of her six favorite stories of sand and sea, as shared at The Week magazine:
The Lost Daughter by Elena FerranteRead about the other entries on the list.
I had suspected that my professed reasons for not wanting to have children — too selfish, not sane enough, will regret it — could be easily overcome if I actually wanted children. But Ferrante's 2006 novel about a mother on a seaside holiday affirms that those reasons can't be discounted.
--Marshal Zeringue