Animal

AnimalFrom Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an intoxicating (Entertainment Weekly), fearless (Los Angeles Times), and explosive (People) novel about what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning (Esquire). Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York

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And Clary is introduced with a vengeance

and the importance of finding a place to call home

and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police

Decades later

Barkskins showcases Proulx’s inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention

She passes out on the couch

Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the town’s happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own

begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family

self-reliance

a great novel for readers who appreciate multilayered romantic fiction with elements of domestic drama

she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration