And as someone who has also been through a gauntlet early in life, I wanted to write about the fury and fever of being a woman, in all its bloody glory. Lisa Taddeo: I was reading so much Natalia Ginzburg at the time, and just so engaged with the blunt work of writers like Lucia Berlin and Grace Paley, women writers who had dealt with so much hardship. How did your studies influence you to write it? Q &A With Lisa Taddeo BU Today: Animal was your thesis.
It shows that our students have been doing serious work.”
“The novel was actually started in our program, and we are proud of its publication. “I hope BU students can see what extraordinary work Lisa Taddeo has been doing,” says award-winning novelist Ha Jin (GRS’93), a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and College of Arts & Sciences professor of creative writing and the lecture series’ namesake. When she was pregnant with her daughter, now six years old, doctors found a growth on Taddeo’s pancreas that they said was likely to kill her. Her father died in a car accident when she was 23 (she’s 41 now) lung cancer killed her mother five years after that. The novel, begun as her thesis for BU’s Creative Writing Program, grew, in part, out of her own struggles. Taddeo (GRS’17) will read from Animal (Simon and Schuster, 2021) tonight, Wednesday, November 17, at 7 pm, by Zoom, for BU’s annual Ha Jin Visiting Lecture Series. There’s also a forced abortion, a pregnancy test taken at gunpoint and a stunningly graphic miscarriage that leaves the expectant mother covered in blood and holding the fetus in her hand.” “In the midst of the financial crisis of 2008, a Wall Street trader pays her a thousand dollars to kick him in the testicles. Courtesy of Avid Reader Press/Simon & SchusterĪs the tale unfolds, “Joan suffers, commits or bears witness to rapes, child molestation, suicide and murder,” the New York Times review says.
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