I knew that when I met God one day it would go well. From Lisa Taddeo, author of the 1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an intoxicating (Entertainment Weekly), fearless (Los Angeles Times), and explosive (People) novel about what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning (Esquire). Even if some lines don’t quite land, enough of Joan’s wisecracks hit the spot, particularly when it comes to sexual politics: ‘The older the man, the more my speciality. It was simply women’s pain that manifested as madness.’ Like her character, Taddeo lets loose without emotional or stylistic restraint. Post #MeToo, women are out for revenge: ‘The world had set me up to believe that it was women who went mad. Lisa Taddeo illustrates one womans exhilarating transformation from prey into predator in Animal, the intoxicating (Entertainment Weekly), gripping (New. While the subjects of Three Women came across as a little pathetic, our anti-heroine is ready to steal, cheat, kill and joke. The threads of suspense are expertly woven as the story shuttles between past and present. About This Book From Lisa Taddeo, author of the 1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an 'intoxicating' ( Entertainment Weekly ), 'fearless' ( Los Angeles Times ), and 'explosive' ( People ) novel about 'what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning' ( Esquire ). Only gradually does it become clear why Joan is how she is, and why she is so obsessed with this younger woman. I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot. This event does not so much upset her as prompt her to go cross country and seek out Alice, a beautiful, mysterious yoga teacher in Los Angeles. The first novel from Lisa Taddeo, author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Three Women. I hope you like me.’ She leaves New York after her former lover shoots himself in the face in a restaurant while she’s on a date with another man. Animal is the first-person account of Joan, a slightly unhinged 37-year-old woman: ‘I am depraved.

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