![]() ![]() ![]() “There are rapes, and then there are the rapes we allow to happen, the ones we shower and get ready for,” observes Alice. Along the way, the narrative unfolds a dark and scarring secret from Joan’s childhood, while showing how the very prospect of violence and violation defines the female experience. ![]() After settling into a dodgy abode in the Los Angeles hills, Joan locates the gorgeous, sharp-tongued Alice, with whom she forms an initially clingy, ultimately significant relationship. As Joan sits in a New York restaurant with a man she professes to love, her longtime paramour enters and commits a horrific act of violence that sends Joan scurrying cross-country to find Alice, a woman she has only heard of but who she believes will help sort out her life. ![]() DEBUT After the highly regarded Three Women, a nonfiction portrait of female sexual experience, Taddeo offers a debut novel that is a ruthlessly exact study of the damage done to women-and that women sometimes do to themselves-in the search for love and belonging. ![]()
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