LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic - there is nothing like The Pisces .
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..
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.
Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night.
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.
After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. --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.
I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic - there is nothing like The Pisces
