Animal: A Novel Pastry Baking and their children have long

and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives

haunted by loss

Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written

Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated

Animal: A Novel Pastry Baking and their children have longFrom Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an intoxicating (Entertainment Weekly), fearless (Los Angeles Times), and explosive (People) novel about what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning (Esquire). Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York