DescriptionExtraordinary.
A nonfiction literary masterpiece.
I can't remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women.
--Elizabeth Gilbert The most in-depth look at the female sex drive that's been published in decades.
--New York An] instant feminist classic.
Utterly engrossing.
Game-changing.
--O, The Oprah Magazine Three Women will be whispered about around pools from coast to coast.
--Town & Country Desire as we'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 it's all we live for.
Yet we almost never speak of it.
And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored--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 the sensation offends him.
To Lina's horror, even her marriage counselor says her husband'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 Maggie'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.
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