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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. 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. After settling into a dodgy abode in the Los Angeles hills, Joan locates the gorgeous, sharp-tongued Alice, with who...Log In or Sign Up to Read More