THREE WOMEN.

AuthorMangu-Ward, Katherine

Three Women is a strange beast. Lisa Taddeo's surprise sociological summer hit examines the intimate lives of--unsurprisingly--three women: Maggie, Lina, and Sloane. Central to the real-life study is the question of free will and the extent of female sexual and romantic autonomy.

The book is peculiarly written, by turns academic and flowery. Taddeo is also a novelist, and it shows, not always in ideal ways for a nonfiction medium. But the neutral hyper-close scrutiny she affords her subjects feels pleasingly precise and scientific at a time when...

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