![]() Married for more than a decade to a man who won't kiss her, she loves her children but the rest of her life is suffocating her. Lina (like Sloane, this is a pseudonym) is also sleeping with someone outside her marriage, but after that their stories diverge. ![]() ![]() Sloane's privileged childhood included brittle and distracted parents, and by adolescence she was "not only an anorexic-bulimic, but the absolute best anorexic-bulimic she could be." Of the three, Sloane's tale feels the least satisfying, or perhaps the most perplexing, but it also allows Taddeo to practice a lack of judgment that seems almost radical: As long as things are working for all the adults involved, and nobody is being harmed, then sex and relationships can take many forms. There's a poor little rich girl aspect to her story. There's Sloane, a glamorous and successful restaurateur whose marriage includes sexual relationships with third parties, voyeurism, and a dawning realization (when reading Fifty Shades of Grey) that she is a submissive to her husband's dominant. The women she profiles are not diverse in most demographic senses - all are white, for instance - but each inhabits a different life trajectory. As she writes in the book's prologue, "it's the quotidian minutes of our lives that will go on forever, that will tell us who we were," and she seamlessly weaves together everyday details and startlingly intimate moments into narratives that feel as real, as vital, as the pulse in your wrist. Taddeo spent years with the subjects of Three Women, and the investment pays off. In the tradition of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family or Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Taddeo's book - her first - is a work of deep observation, long conversations, and a kind of journalistic alchemy. The protagonists in Lisa Taddeo's new book, Three Women, are not unusual in their complicated sexual histories what makes their stories revolutionary is the exquisite candor with which Taddeo gives them voice. How?įemale desire has been seen as a problem since long before Freud, vexed, wondered what on Earth women want.Įntire vocabularies of insult are devoted to girls and women who dare to proclaim their existence as sexual beings. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Three Women Author Lisa Taddeo ![]()
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