Pisces

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 summer—her only tasks caring for a beloved diabetic dog and trying to learn to care for herself. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube atop Venice Beach, but Lucy can find no peace from her misery and anxiety—not in her love addiction group therapy meetings, not in frequent Tinder meetups, not in Dominic the foxhound’s 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 real—what happens when you think love will save you but are afraid it might also kill you.

Un roman de debut original, imaginativ si hilar despre dragoste, anxietate si creaturi marine, de la autorul So Sad Today Lucy isi scrie disertatia despre Sappho de treisprezece ani cand ea si Jamie se despart. Dupa ce a lovit fundul in Phoenix, sora ei din Los Angeles o insista pe Lucy pentru a fi vara - singurele sarcini de ingrijire a unui caine diabetic iubit si incercarea de a invata sa aiba grija de ea insasi.