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Fish Tales - Paperback

by Nettie Jones
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nettie JonesPublish date:4/14/2026Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250420039ISBN-10:1250420032UPC:9781250420039Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, African American & Black, LiteraryBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCBY9TC39S

A Best Book of the Year: Literary Hub - The Week
A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review - Time - The Week - The Millions

"A masterpiece." --Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books

A mesmerizing spin through the high-rolling high times of 1970s New York and Detroit, Nettie Jones's Fish Tales is a lost classic taking its rightful place in the spotlight.

Confident and cavalier, Lewis Jones seeks freedom and a good time, leaving mayhem in her wake. Strutting between the bohemian demimonde of New York City and the affluent Black community of Detroit, she guzzles champagne, snorts piles of cocaine, wakes up on silk sheets with a variety of lovers. And then she is upended by the handsome, erudite, often cruel Brook--a man who has his own bevy of admirers. Soon, Lewis and Brook are ensnared in a struggle for dominance that launches them into a shock of violence.

A bold exploration of the blurred line between love and control, pleasure and addiction, Nettie Jones's Fish Tales offers a glittering, devastating portrait of a woman's pursuit of her own kind of freedom. As provocative as it is moving, as profane as it is artful, it illuminates the warring forces of power, desire, intimacy, and fear, and exposes the raw nerve of our yearning to be loved on our own terms.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250420039ISBN-10:1250420032UPC:9781250420039Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, African American & Black, LiteraryBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCBY9TC39S
Nettie Jones is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Award, a Yaddo Foundation fellowship, a Michigan Council for the Arts grant, a New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study Student Choice Award, and a Carnegie Fund for Authors grant. Fish Tales, her debut novel, was first acquired by Toni Morrison, who was then an editor at Random House, and it was originally published in 1984. The New York Times named Jones a promising new novelist in 1985. Her second novel, Mischief Makers, was published in 1989. Her essays and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.
Publisher: Picador USA

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