The pisces

Melissa Broder

About this book

Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of what real love looks like.

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • fiction, psychological
  • interpersonal relations
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • man-woman relationships
  • mermen
  • new york times reviewed
  • women graduate students