The Pisces by Melissa Broder
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
"Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic - there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it." --Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter
Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety -- not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection.
Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy's understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love, lust, and meaning in the one life we have.
Melissa Broder is the author of four poetry collections, including Last Sext, as well as the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces and the essay collection So Sad Now. Broder has contributed to The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italy, and The Cut, among other publications. She is a Pushcart Prize winner for poetry. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781524761561 |
| ISBN 10 | 1524761567 |
| Title | The Pisces |
| Author | Melissa Broder |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2019-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2018 |
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