First novel is raw depiction of female rage – Sydney Morning Herald

Lisa Taddeo grew up in New Jersey in the kind of family where if there was a sex scene on television, someone would jump off the couch and say brightly Does anybody want some hot chocolate?Her parents were Italian Catholics and never talked to her about sex: There was this understanding, were not going to go there. Yet as a young girl, she picked up on her fathers desire for her mother, and her mothers apparent lack of desire.
Later her mother told a story about an old man who used to follow her…

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