And characters like Joan - women who are animalistic, somewhat immature, and uncomfortably intelligent - are somehow still relatable regardless of the revolting things they say and do.Īfter Vic’s death, Joan sets out on a road trip from New York City to Los Angeles, where she is seeking - hunting, more accurately - a woman named Alice, to whom she has an intense but hidden connection. Recently, the loose genre of “Women Not Giving a F-k” has been near-perfected by authors like Raven Leilani and Gillian Flynn. 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.Joan also admits that her story ends in murder, although she rejects the inevitable label of “sociopath” that she knows others will foist upon her.Īnd yet it is Joan’s depravity that makes her such an irresistible character. 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. 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. 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. Lisa Taddeo takes you into the dark heart of what trauma does to a woman.
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