OMG what were these women thinking?

This might certainly be your first thought, once you’ve started reading about the three women in Three Women.  It took eight years of research and writing for author Lisa Taddeo to compile this non-fiction book about the sex lives of three ladies: Lina, Maggie and Sloane.  Lina breaks up her passionless marriage by having an affair with her ex of eons ago; high school student, Maggie, threatens to break the marriage of her English teacher; and Sloane is very happily married to her husband, who is turned on by watching his wife have sex with other men, some within a threesome and some of whom are married.  Everyone has children, except for Maggie, a child herself.

Written in the most delicious literary prose I’ve come across in a long time, Taddeo pulls us into the three stories, leaving us insatiable at the end of each chapter as she switches from one protagonist to the other, much like the protagonists themselves, whose insatiable desires never seem to be completely satisfied.

The actions of Lina, Maggie and Sloane might make you bonkers, truly.  It seems as if their choices are informed and that they should know better.  However, as Taddeo reveals their pasts and explores deep and disturbing realities, which surround each of their circumstances, your sentiments might be replaced by rage towards an inherently misogynistic past that has plagued our planet for millenniums.

I did not want to stop reading this book and only did so because there were no more pages.  Simply put, Three Women will leave your head spinning and you’ll immediately want to lend it to a friend, provided she/he will get through it within a couple days, giving you someone with whom you may discuss it.