![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While I always get some satisfaction from stories that take a critical look at how men systemically tread on women, I found the way Taddeo examined women’s complicated relationships with each other even more interesting. I almost wish I had read it in one sitting, to really be immersed in that feeling. The novel feels oppressive, a bit frenzied, evoking a feeling as if you’ve had a sunstroke and your mind is repeatedly going over the same five thoughts. ![]() I think she did take it too far, but I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy it. And again, until I find myself wondering whether maybe Taddeo had taken it a tad too far, exaggerated too much. One of the core issues that Animal explores is the way that men can ruin lives without a care, to get what they want. After this traumatic event, she decides to drive from New York to California, looking for a woman named Alice, who she thinks can help her unravel her past. Joan has just witnessed a man shooting himself in a crowded restaurant, where she was eating dinner with her lover, a married man. It was simply women’s pain that manifested as madness. The world had set me up to believe that it was women who went mad. ![]()
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