title: Three Women by: Taddeo, Lisa published: 2020-07-07 read: 2021-08 preview

I love Taddeo’s work, and I bough this book immediately after starting in her “Animal”. Three Women is her first work, and it’s not a novel, but something like a true story; or at least based on real women. It’s the stories of three women, centred on their sexual lives, or rather, how sex plays a central role in their lives. With pain, love, rape, passion, and hate. The three stories are totally separate, except that they are intertwined chapter-wise, and that there are parallels in their developments, in their experiences, in their disappointments, in their pains. And yes, it is not all pretty there, and yes, uncouth male behaviour is a common streak. 

I sometimes I have the feeling that I’ve seen it all. Nothing is less true, of course, and I was happy to read this since it made me understand more and see a bit clearer though good old hetero relationships. Not sure if I do, but at least I have a bit more of colour in the palette now.

Highly recommended read from me. Probably even more than “Animal”.