Fish Tales

<p><b>THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC</b><br>*A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025*<br>*A <i>Cosmopolitan </i>Best Book for April 2025*<br>*A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring*<br>*A <i>Time </i>Best Book of the Month*<br>*A <i>The Week</i> Best Book of 2025*<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>***</b><br><b>'Candid, fast and alive' RAVEN LEILANI</b><br><b>'Fast, fearless, so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands' JUSTIN TORRES</b><br><b>'Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive' BRYAN WASHINGTON</b><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><br><br>'<i>Fish Tales </i>will <b>certainly dazzle you</b>, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie' <b>ANGELA FLOURNOY</b><br>'A novel of desire, pleasure, drugs and sex . . . <b>We'll all be better for it having been rediscovered</b>' <i><b>LITERARY HUB</b></i><br>'<b>Nettie Jones's voice is astonishing. It leaps off the page like a panther</b> . . . Unlike anything I've ever read' <i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i><br>'<b>A cult classic .</b> . . [A] sharp, fast-paced look at the highs and lows of the human heart' <i><b>The Atlantic</b></i><br>'A <b>burst of authentic energy, a rush of life from start to finish</b>' <i>Chicago Review of Books</i><br><i>'</i>An unsparing portrait of sexual hedonism . . . <b>a meditation on female sexuality and the cost of pursuing freedom</b> without self-preservation' <b><i>TLS</i></b></p>