The Pisces: A Novel
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
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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.
Editor's Note
Not your typical beach read…
A delightfully strange debut, this novel trades in the sea creature-romance plot that’s become a surprise trend this year. Dark, funny, and erotic, this novel isn’t your typical beach read — but it’s certain to make waves.
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Reviews for The Pisces
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well, that was pretty insane but so engrossing. It reminded me a bit of My Year of Rest and Relaxation in that they both explore the (perceived) meaninglessness of life through quirky female narrators who try to navigate the void within them and find salvation in the most absurd ways. You read this often wondering "WTF?"but still feel pulled along and can't stop reading.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I don't know how this book got published. I wasted 8 hours of my life listening to it. The characters had little to no sustenance. I felt for the dog more than any of the human(esque) characters. The ending was completely ridiculous. I wanted to like this story, but Broder wrote in circles. You feel more confused at the end than you did the beginning. Lucy is selfish and immature for someone who is supposed to be about 40. I'd put this story in the same realm as Twilight--boring; annoying characters; a love affair that makes absolutely no sense; very little resolution to teeny-bopper problems.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Asking authors read their own books might be good a idea on paper but in reality it rarely works. Actors are not expected to write their own plays so why are authors expected to do the opposite? It might be a great book but I guess I will never know unless I find a paper copy of it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not quite what I was expecting. Felt like the author was sometimes vulgar just for the sake of being so. Not my favorite.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This was a hard book to get through for me. I found myself annoyed with the main character, Lucy more and more as I went on. This was an audiobook for me and had I actually tried a hard copy of the book I probably would not have even finished the book.
Looking at some of the reviews now I totally agree this is definitely a love it or hate it book an unfortunately I fall in the latter part. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book confuzzled me with it’s crazy mix of crass and intelligence. Giving it a 5 because it was definitely a unique read!