When I finished Animal, though, I took a walk, just to settle things in my mind. After all, starting a new book is one of the greatest little pleasures of life.
Typically, when I finish a book, I move straight onto the next one. It’s also the way the sudden plot turns – as things go from worse to worser at warp speed – induce a sensation of whiplash, while some of the novel’s darkest scenes flirt with the grotesque in a stomach-churning manner.įor good and for bad – mostly for good – Animal delivers a forceful impact. It’s not simply that Lisa Taddeo lands her emotional punches, though she certainly does. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig…”Īnimal is a heck of a literary experience, one of those rare novels that I actually seemed to feel. “I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. With writing that scorches and mesmerizes, Taddeo illustrates one woman’s exhilarating transformation from prey into predator. Animal is a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society.
Here is the electrifying debut novel from Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Three Women, which was named to more than thirty best-of-the-year lists and hailed as “a dazzling achievement” ( Los Angeles Times) and “a heartbreaking, gripping, astonishing masterpiece” ( Esquire). In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child-that has haunted her every waking moment-while forging the power to finally strike back.
But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse.
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