Part memoir, part literary excavation, I Choose Elena traces Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s attempt to understand trauma, survival, intimacy, and the body through the life and writing of Elena Ferrante.

Rather than straightforward criticism or memoir, the book moves in fragments and associations, using Ferrante’s work as both mirror and framework for thinking through violence, shame, friendship, memory, and female interiority. It sits in that contemporary lineage of hybrid criticism/memoir alongside writers like Maggie Nelson and Olivia Laing, though more emotionally raw and less formally detached.

Strong appeal for readers interested in feminist writing, literary criticism, trauma memoir, Ferrante studies, or contemporary autofiction-adjacent nonfiction.

2019 Allen & Unwin/Mood Indigo paperback first printing. Very good condition with light shelf wear only.