![]() ![]() She is nearly 37, and has “eaten too much caviar with men who didn’t marry ”.Īnimal recalls themes from Three Women – beautiful Italian women, older men, a didactic undercurrent on how the world shapes women. It’s notable that Joan has a name, for she is precisely the sort of narrator it’s become fashionable to leave anonymous: a fading temptress and low-key con artist, prone to glorifying her own pain, who steals objects and hates everything. The rest of the novel consists of flashbacks, set up by real-time events that contribute more to structure than momentum. Joan leaves New York for Los Angeles to unravel her past after her boss-slash-inamorato shoots himself. Lisa Taddeo’s debut novel follows her nonfiction hit Three Women, and the mathematically sharp among you will notice a reduction in scale: there’s one truly important person here, while all the others are there to limn her. Joan, the heroine of Animal, is the kind of person who constantly tells you what kind of person she is. ![]()
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