THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC *A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025* *A Cosmopolitan Best Book
for April 2025* *A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring* *A Time Best
Book of the Month* Acquired by Toni Morrison championed by Gayl Jones and almost forgotten
for forty years FISH TALES is a fierce fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.
*** 'Candid fast and alive' RAVEN LEILANI 'Fast fearless so full of life it practically
vibrates in your hands' JUSTIN TORRES 'Wondrous and outrageous real and incandescent and
alive' BRYAN WASHINGTON 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. 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 and I'm a Fan . '
Fish Tales will certainly dazzle you and it might even scandalize you but it never tells a
lie' ANGELA FLOURNOY 'A novel of desire pleasure drugs and sex . . . We'll all be better for
it having been rediscovered ' LITERARY HUB ' Nettie Jones's voice is astonishing. It leaps off
the page like a panther . . . Unlike anything I've ever read' New York Times Book Review ' A
cult classic . . . [A] sharp fast-paced look at the highs and lows of the human heart' The
Atlantic ' An unsparing portrait of sexual hedonism . . . a meditation on female sexuality
and the cost of pursuing freedom without self-preservation' TLS
