Joan moves from New York City to Los Angeles to escape the aforementioned horror that she witnesses while there. Taddeo is becoming one of those ‘read everything they’ve written’ kind of authors for me, so even though this book was just released last month, I’m already hoping she’s got another coming out soon. This novel isn’t for everyone, it embodies a certain female rage that will no doubt scare or disgust others, but I loved it. Having read Taddeo’s first book Three Women, which is also about women and their sex lives, I knew I would enjoy Animal, because she deals with many of the same themes, although this second book is different because it’s fiction. Animal by Lisa Taddeo is a novel full of violence, sex, and power struggles. We learn this in the first paragraph of the book, told bluntly by the first-person narrator and protagonist, Joan. 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.
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