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Animal

by Lisa Taddeo (Goodreads Author)

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read in June 2024

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Lea said: " taddeo sounds fresher here than she did in three women, although i wish she’d have nailed the ending. i wish authors didn’t spend 300+ pages on buildup and pack every “twist” into the last 50 pages. anyway:

“I had to suffer the grotesqueries of crushe ...more "

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“Now it was time to tell her when the rot set in.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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“In a haze, I ordered a rice cooker from the Wolfgang Puck Bistro Collection, a cubic zirconia tennis bracelet, two push-up bras with silicone inserts, and seven hand-painted porcelain figurines of sleeping babies.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“I could make a case for my mother's rejection of domesticity as some kind of feminist assertion of her right to leisure.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“FOR MANY YEARS MY RAGE was dormant.
I'd lived to survive. I could call up the hideous event, but in a far-off way. I could have dictated only the facts. I could not have called up each moment of horror.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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“All present men are stand-ins for former men. And all men are stand-ins for our fathers. And even our fathers mean less than our own self-preservation. May you not go around the world looking to fill what you fear you lack with the flesh of another human.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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