Three Women is a 2019 non-fiction book by Lisa Taddeo. It is her debut book and was published on July 9, 2019, by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It covers the sexual and emotional lives of three women from different backgrounds and regions of the United States. It debuted at number one on The New York Times non-fiction best sellers list and received mostly positive reviews from critics.
Summary
The book covers the sexuality of three women: Lina, a suburban Indiana mother whose teenage rape disrupts the course of her life; Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student in North Dakota who becomes entangled in an illegal affair with her married English teacher; and Sloane, a successful restaurant owner in the Northeast whose husband watches her have sex with other men and women at her request. Taddeo spent eight years writing the book, driving across the country six times to embed herself in the lives of the three women.
Publication
Three Women was published on July 9, 2019, by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Three Women debuted at number one on The New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction best-sellers list on July 28, 2019. It spent eleven weeks on the list.
The book also debuted at number two on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction best-sellers list on July 28, 2019. It spent eleven weeks on the list.
