"Animal" is for anyone who has been oppressed and knocked down, and then upon trying to rise back up, was looked upon as a monster for doing so. I'm really happy you brought up that quote in particular, because it really does mean so much for me.
I focused on women, but for me it's really the whole idea. Things have been happening collectively to so many oppressed people. The reasons we do those things are most often not because we're born with some bad seed, but because something has driven us to this sort of point of no return. What are the things that she did to, quote-unquote, "deserve" that, and moreso why do we think somebody "deserves" something? Why we do root for the people we root for, and don't root for the ones that we don't? I do believe as humans, and it's something I wanted to look at in "Animal," that we are all capable of doing terrible things. What follows is basically why and how she got to that spot where a man would do that.
She is having dinner with a man who is married, and another married man comes in and shoots himself in the face in front of her. Joan is a woman who we meet in a restaurant in New York City. Tell me about Joan, the monster she is, the monster she has become. We're all capable of monstrosity." That is also a foundational bedrock of this story. One that really stands out is, "We are all monsters. This is a book that women are going to be quoting for years. The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
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