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* *A The Week Best Book of 2025* 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 'A burst of authentic energy a rush of life
from start to finish ' Chicago Review of Books ' An unsparing portrait of sexual hedonism . .
. a meditation on female sexuality and the cost of pursuing freedom without self-preservation'
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