Three Women

Three Women

â€œExtraordinaryâ€¦A nonfiction literary masterpieceâ€¦I canâ€™t remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women.â€ â€”Elizabeth Gilbert

â€œThis is one of the most riveting, assured, and scorchingly original debuts Iâ€™ve ever read.â€ â€”Dave Eggers

â€œ[An] instant feminist classic...Utterly engrossing...Game-changing.â€ â€”O, The Oprah Magazine

Desire as weâ€™ve never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting.

It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and itâ€™s all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexploredâ€”until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds. The result, Three Women, is the deepest nonfiction portrait of desire ever written and one of the most anticipated books of the year.

We begin in suburban Indiana with Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. She passes her days cooking and cleaning for a man who refuses to kiss her on the mouth, protesting that â€œthe sensation offendsâ€ him. To Linaâ€™s horror, even her marriage counselor says her husbandâ€™s position is valid. Starved for affection, Lina battles daily panic attacks. When she reconnects with an old flame through social media, she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming.

In North Dakota we meet Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who finds a confidant in her handsome, married English teacher. By Maggieâ€™s account, supportive nightly texts and phone calls evolve into a clandestine physical relationship, with plans to skip school on her eighteenth birthday and make love all day; instead, he breaks up with her on the morning he turns thirty. A few years later, Maggie has no degree, no career, and no dreams to live for. When she learns that this man has been named North Dakotaâ€™s Teacher of the Year, she steps forward with her storyâ€”and is met with disbelief by former schoolmates and the jury that hears her case. The trial will turn their quiet community upside down.

Finally, in an exclusive enclave of the Northeast, we meet Sloaneâ€”a gorgeous, successful, and refined restaurant ownerâ€”who is happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. He picks out partners for her alone or for a threesome, and she ensures that everyoneâ€™s needs are satisfied. For years, Sloane has been asking herself where her husbandâ€™s desire ends and hers begins. One day, they invite a new man into their bedâ€”but he brings a secret with him that will finally force Sloane to confront the uneven power dynamics that fuel their lifestyle.

Based on years of immersive reporting, and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, Three Women is a groundbreaking portrait of erotic longing in todayâ€™s America, exposing the fragility, complexity, and inequality of female desire with unprecedented depth and emotional power. It is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy, that introduces us to three unforgettable womenâ€”and one remarkable writerâ€”whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.
Country USA
Brand Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-07-09
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781451642292

Country	USA
Brand	Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-07-09
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781451642292

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