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madelineclairelo 's review for:
Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo
I am seeing a lot of mixed reviews on this book. Most of them in the spirit that it seemed anticlimactic in content for being the product of almost a decade of research.
Personally, I found its subtlety to be what was so cathartic about it.
It is easy to find books that detail the precise and obvious ways in which women’s lives are affected by men.
It is not so easy to find books that explore the elusive, subconscious ways in which men, and their perception of us, seep into our everyday-ness. The subliminal grotesqueness of womanhood. More specifically, of daring to be a sexual being amidst this womanhood.
Reading this book felt just as claustrophobic as it did freeing. I felt uncomfortable for these women— and then realized that I actually felt uncomfortable /with/ these women.
This silent, awkward world of despair that Taddeo has created was not really created by Taddeo at all— but given a vessel to be recognized by her methodical way with words.
Personally, I found its subtlety to be what was so cathartic about it.
It is easy to find books that detail the precise and obvious ways in which women’s lives are affected by men.
It is not so easy to find books that explore the elusive, subconscious ways in which men, and their perception of us, seep into our everyday-ness. The subliminal grotesqueness of womanhood. More specifically, of daring to be a sexual being amidst this womanhood.
Reading this book felt just as claustrophobic as it did freeing. I felt uncomfortable for these women— and then realized that I actually felt uncomfortable /with/ these women.
This silent, awkward world of despair that Taddeo has created was not really created by Taddeo at all— but given a vessel to be recognized by her methodical way with words.