. It's about the times way, way back. It takes place in the Middle East where, when women were menstruating, they had to be separated from the rest. What they found is that when they went to the red tent, they got to be themselves; they got to speak freely and they got to join in sisterhood. So there was power in it that.
The Neapolitan Novels are a four-part series by Elena Ferrante that include the books My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child. "It's a series of four books by Elena Ferrante. It's about the life of women in Neapolitan, Italy in the 1950s.
"It's beautifully evocative of Italy but most especially about the kinds of relationships that were between women and what marriages were like. It's a stunning series of books."