Fish Tales

<p><b>A LITHUB BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025</b><br><br><b>Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by </b><b>Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, </b><b>FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for </b><b>our own fragmented times.</b><br><br><b>'Candid, fast and alive' </b>RAVEN LEILANI<br><b>'Fast, fearless, so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands' </b>JUSTIN TORRES<br><b>'Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive'</b> BRYAN WASHINGTON<br><b>'<i>Fish Tales </i>will certainly dazzle you, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie' </b>ANGELA FLOURNOY<br><b>'A novel of desire, pleasure, drugs and sex . . . We'll all be better for it having been rediscovered' </b><i>LITERARY HUB</i><br><br><i>I prefer to stay plugged in, Jodi. Plugged in makes me feel alive.</i><br><br>Lewis Jones is a party girl on the edge. Bankrolled by her husband Woody and accompanied by her fellow hedonist Kitty Kat, a hustler who knows all the best spots, Lewis bounces between the demimonde of 70s New York and affluent Black Detroit in a fractured haze of lovers, cocaine parties and champagne baths. But her wild pursuit of freedom is upended when she meets the handsome, erudite, cruel Brook - the only man who won't allow her to take control.<br><br><b>A kaleidoscopic swirl of sex and exploitation, selfhood and self-destruction, this lost classic is an unnervingly contemporary depiction of the collision between identity, freedom and female desire - perfect for fans of <i>In the Cut, Oreo, Luster</i> and <i>I'm a Fan</i>.</b></p>