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Fish Tales
Nettie Jones
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A LITHUB BOOK OF THE YEAR 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
'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
I prefer to stay plugged in, Jodi. Plugged in makes me feel alive.
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.
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Fish Tales is a fast, fearless book, told in snatches, and so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands. The fashion, the rollicking orgies, the sex, the coke, the bubbles, the queens, the most head-spinning combination of tenderness and toxicity-it ought to have been the sensation of its time. One can't help but wonder if the contemporary literary landscape might be a little wilder, a little freer, if this book hadn't lain dormant the last forty years. Thank heavens for the revival of Fish Tales; thank heavens for the fierce vision of Nettie JonesFish Tales is candid, fast, and alive. Nettie Jones renders everything as its own particular organism-cities, relationships, and of course the body and its grotesque eroticismFish Tales is wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive. A novel unlike any other, from an author unlike any other: Nettie Jones astounds and shocks and comforts. Fish Tales is a genuine treasure"Nettie Jones writes about sex, yearning, money, and friendship like nobody's business. So much truth, hurt, and humor permeate throughout this slim, enthralling novel, such that many of Jones's observations about the nature of power and desire feel written for today. Fish Tales will certainly dazzle you, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie
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