

1 on the New York Times bestseller list, establishing her as a preeminent immersive journalist.

Exploring female sexuality through the lives of a high school student, a suburban mother and a middle-aged swinger, "Three Women" debuted at No. Taddeo lived in Topanga for seven months while she was writing “ Three Women,” the 2019 nonfiction debut that made her famous. Desperate for a new beginning, she drives across the country and settles in a sort-of commune in the hills of Topanga, where she and a few other lost souls rent shacks and yurts alongside the coyotes. Joan has uprooted her life in New York City after witnessing the brutal suicide of her married lover.

In her new book, “ Animal” - her first published novel - the narrator is also telling her daughter a story. What she has to teach is not reassuring, but it is true, even when it's fiction.
