He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man.ĭo you see how this is going? But I wasn’t always that way. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. This is the first novel from the author of Three Women which was a global phenomenon. But beware, before you read it: brace yourself. There was never any doubt that Animal was going to be one of the books of 2021. That makes the writer no less brave for putting a story out there.

It is how all writing should be done, of course. Taddeo is so brave and writes with no filter. We learn this in the first paragraph of the book, told bluntly by the first-person narrator and protagonist, Joan. Yet Taddeo writes the story so perfectly that she unwraps the psychology of her character and how she came to be who she is with precision. You don’t need to like female characters. This book begins with a suicide an aging man, obsessed with his mistress, tracks her down in a restaurant having dinner with another married man, and shoots himself in the face.

Even if the character is one who makes bad life decisions. It is so refreshing to have a writer who writes about women to unapologetically, and who writes about their anger and rage. All of those ‘tiny little rapes’ and things that happen that build up to the pure rage of a woman. NEW in Books RPL: 'Animal: a novel' by Lisa Taddeo This fierce new fiction by New York Times bestselling author Taddeo is not for the faint of heart. Lisa Taddeo takes you into the dark heart of what trauma does to a woman.

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