num_pages: 270
description: An original imaginative and hilarious debut novel about love anxiety and sea creatures from the author of So Sad Today.Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix her Los Angeles-based sister insists Lucy housesit for the summerher only tasks caring for a beloved diabetic dog and trying to learn to care for herself. Annikas home is a gorgeous glass cube atop Venice Beach but Lucy can find no peace from her misery and anxietynot in her love addiction group therapy meetings not in frequent Tinder meetups not in Dominic the foxhounds easy affection not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks.Whip-smart neurotically funny sexy and above all fearless The Pisces is built on a premise both sirenic and incredibly realwhat happens when you think love will save you but are afraid it might also kill you.
language: English
title: The Pisces
publisher: Hogarth Press