5/26/2023 0 Comments Animal lisa taddeo plot![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m very affected by the notion of the mad woman.” Taddeo’s motivation for penning a novel about a woman who has spent her life surviving men and holds utter contempt for societal expectations as dictated by instutionalised patriarchy, originated from her research after writing Three Women: “I had seen so many stories of so many women who were told they were crazy when they were just upset. She’s trying to own the nomenclature herself.” “When she tells people she’s depraved she’s telling people what they’re going to call her before they call her that. “Joan is very much going through this awakening where she has stopped caring what people think of her,” Taddeo explains via a WhatsApp call from her home in Connecticut, US. Meet Joan: a 36-year-old Italian-American woman who witnesses her ex-lover’s suicide over a dinner with her current (married) lover on the first page of Lisa Taddeo’s feverishly hypnotic debut novel, Animal. If someone asked me to describe myself in a single word, depraved is the one I would use. ![]()
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