A LITHUB BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025<\/b><\/p>\n
Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by <\/b>Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, <\/b>FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for <\/b>our own fragmented times.<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Candid, fast and alive’ <\/b>RAVEN LEILANI
‘Fast, fearless, so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands’ <\/b>JUSTIN TORRES
‘Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive’<\/b> BRYAN WASHINGTON
‘Fish Tales <\/i>will certainly dazzle you, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie’ <\/b>ANGELA FLOURNOY
‘A novel of desire, pleasure, drugs and sex . . . We’ll all be better for it having been rediscovered’ <\/b>LITERARY HUB<\/i><\/p>\n
I prefer to stay plugged in, Jodi. Plugged in makes me feel alive.<\/i><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 In the Cut, Oreo, Luster<\/i> and I’m a Fan<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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