Lisa Taddeo’s new novel was borne out of pain.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: To start, what can you tell us aboutAnimal’s plot?
Do you have a log line for it yet?
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EW: When did you write this book?
EW: Do you think the book was a direct reaction to what you experienced writingThree Women?
And, a lot of it was inspired by what I saw across the country.
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Some of the criticisms ofThree Womenare that the women are victims and everyones sad.
First of all, I didnt think they were victims but thereisa lot of sadness out there.
It was borne out of that feeling of pain.
EW: Wbat is the significance to setting the book in New York and Los Angeles?
There’s something gothic about it, or at least my experience of it.
EW: Did anything else specifically inspire this novel?
LT:One of the things I really like aboutGone Girlis the sense of reclaiming power.
There have been so many conversations about that story, of people saying oh she’s crazy.
But no, she’s not!
This guy f–ked up her life.
Why are we just saying she’s crazy, why are we not looking at what he did.
EW: As you look ahead to the publication this summer, what else is up next for you?
Im such an anxious person that I need to fill my brain with a million different things.
But the writer’s room [ofThree Women] has been lovely.
Its been really great.
