5/27/2023 0 Comments Animal taddeo“I can tell you a lot about sex with a man to whom you are not attracted,” Joan says. The memory of their affair hangs like Spanish moss over the first half of the book. (No spoilers here: It literally happens in the first paragraph.) The dead man is Vic, the avuncular creative director of the Manhattan ad agency where Joan works, a besotted sugar daddy who mentored, promoted, bedded, spoiled and stalked her. The novel opens with an actual bang: Joan’s married boss, with whom she’s had a protracted affair, bursts into a restaurant where she’s having dinner with another man and shoots himself in front of her. Voracious and obsessive, Joan is addicted to love and its analogues - in particular, the adoration of men who happen to be married to someone else. “If someone asked me to describe myself in a single word, depraved is the one I would use.” So says Joan, the barely hinged, 30-something narrator of “Animal,” the propulsive, fiercely confident debut novel by Lisa Taddeo.
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