The novel is a meaty follow-up to Three Women.
It’s impossible to talk aboutAnimalwithout talking about 2019’sThree Women.
“Centuries of the patriarchy have driven us to react in specific ways.”
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“We still do these things in the shadows,” she says of the novel’s sexual elements.
“And we don’t want to hear that we do them.”
Because she wasn’t strong enough.
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Or because she was too strong.
Because she was so complex where my father was not.
The existential crises that surround womanhood (is it possible to be safe?
Can men be good?)
“The hope comes from the truth.”
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