What do you do when a life of swallowing your rage finally spits it back out? Joan has spent years playing the role of the beautiful, accommodating woman—keeping her secrets, tolerating cruelty, and living under the gaze of men who think they own her story. But when an act of shocking violence cracks open her carefully controlled existence, she flees to the California desert in search of Alice, a woman she’s never met but who holds the key to her past.

Lisa Taddeo, the bestselling author of Three Women, gives us her first novel: a raw, furious, and hypnotic dive into female anger, desire, and survival. It’s not polite, it’s not tidy, and it’s definitely not the kind of book you’ll read and forget the next day. This is a howl—a primal confession of what it means to live in a world where women’s pain is both exploited and ignored, and where reclaiming power can look like madness to those who’ve never had to fight for it.

Dark, lyrical, and electrifying, Animal asks the questions you might not want answered: What happens when the rage finally breaks through the skin? What if the ugliest parts of us are also the most true?

Author: Lisa Taddeo

Format: Paperback

Pages: 336

Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm

ISBN: 9781471197356