And yet I can’t read Joan’s story without feeling immense empathy for her and caring what happens to her.
She is after all a cheat, a liar, a thief, a manipulator and a vengeful, violent woman. I hope you like me.” Actually I don’t like Joan, I tell Taddeo over our Zoom connection to her rural home in Litchfield County, Connecticut. “Do you see where this is going?” asks Joan.
In comes another married lover of hers and shoots himself in front of them. The book opens with a scene in a restaurant where Joan is dining with a married lover. The protagonist, Joan, could be seen as the fourth woman: indeed, many of the true stories that didn’t make it into Three Women coalesced to inspire the character. In her first novel, Animal, Taddeo has gone even rawer and darker.
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