![]() ![]() Over Zoom, Taddeo and I spoke about depravity, blunt prose, animalhood, perceptions of motherhood, the male gaze, and the mechanisms behind reprehensible choices. Taddeo, in her propulsive narrative, builds on her exploration of women’s desire from her debut, bestselling nonfiction book, Three Women, and also seeks to understand how women’s rage builds and builds until it reaches a breaking point. ![]() As a child, her mother taught her that “we are all monsters, we are all capable of monstrosity.” The book brims with sex and violence, two urges that Joan is familiar with. Lecherous men tell repulsive stories coyotes sniff out women’s menstrual blood and howl children survive horrific acts of abuse men’s eyes linger too long and women are rendered as prey or predators. The landscape of Animal, Lisa Taddeo’s debut novel, is brutal. ![]()
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