Three women
(Playaway/Launchpad)

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Read by Mena Suvari, Marin Ireland, Tara Lynne Barr and the author.

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 to create this deep nonfiction portrait of desire. Based on years of immersive reporting, and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, this is a groundbreaking portrait of erotic longing in today’s America, exposing the fragility, complexity, and inequality of female desire with unprecedented depth and emotional power. It is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy, that introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.