{"product_id":"fish-tales-9780374608804","title":"Fish Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA mesmerizing spin through the high-rolling high times of 1970s New York and Detroit, Nettie Jones's \u003ci\u003eFish Tales\u003c\/i\u003e is a lost classic taking its rightful place in the spotlight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLewis Jones is a party girl for the ages. Confident and cavalier, she 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 is supported in her adventures by her husband, Woody, and accompanied by her friend Kitty-Kat, a gay hustler with impeccable style and a knack for finding all the best spots. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bold exploration of the blurred line between love and control, pleasure and addiction, \u003ci\u003eFish Tales\u003c\/i\u003e offers a glittering, devastating portrait of a woman's pursuit of her own kind of freedom. It is a striking deluge of longing, anxiety, ego, identity, and love. As provocative as it is moving, as profane as it is artful, Nettie Jones's\u003ci\u003e Fish Tales\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374608804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Nettie Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45111937466549,"sku":"9780374608804","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6a589940-a786-41b4-8654-776fcdd2829d.jpg?v=1739887675","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fish-tales-9780374608804","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}