"Powerful." --The New Yorker "Brilliant." --The Wall Street Journal "Astounding." --NPR "Forceful, clear and morally engaged." --The Washington Post "Subversive." --The New York Times Book Review "An exquisite, tormented howl." --The Financial Times "Quick, propulsive, and addictive." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Gripping." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "A remarkable story." --Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "Wrenching, sardonic." --Kirkus (starred review) "As relevant today as it was in postwar Italy." --Shelf Awareness (starred review) With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Forbidden Notebook is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba de C