Animal
Lisa Taddeo · 2021
A woman escaping her trauma drives west and ends up in Los Angeles in another woman's orbit. Taddeo's debut novel has the same unnerving directness about female desire and violence as her nonfiction *Three Women*.
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Atrocity arrives on schedule, roughly one per chapter, beginning with a suicide at dinner and escalating from there, each shock straining harder for effect. Joan narrates at a pitch of permanent lurid intensity that flattens rather than deepens, every man is a predator drawn the same way, and the big reveal announces itself a hundred pages early. Taddeo mistakes accumulation for excavation.
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