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The Pisces

By: Melissa Broder
Narrated by: Isabella Inchbald
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

Profoundly modern, deeply disturbed and darkly comic, The Pisces is about heartbroken PhD student who over one summer falls in dangerous, ecstatic love with a merman.

Lucy, staying in a beautiful home overlooking Venice Beach, can find no peace from her misery - not in therapy, not in Tinder hookups, not in her sister's dog's unquestioning devotion, 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....

Pairing neurotic hilarity with pulse-racing carnality and fierce feminism, The Pisces is hot, bothered and unforgettable. Traversing the lines between fantasy and reality, it explores the questions of how and why we stay alive. This fairy-tale romance with a merman could just be the sanest and most human novel you listen to all year.

©2018 Melissa Broder (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Heartfelt Fantasy Merfolk
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I'm sure there was a message behind this book but I missed it.
Couple of juicy scenes but not worth writing home about.

Little to no story line

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The weirdest book ever - like honestly! Maybe if the dog wasnt neglected I may if felt a little differently.

WTF

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Author describes in depth the addictive side of infatuation and lust. While humorous in some sections it was also distressing to listen to the demise of the main character’s mental health and her battle with suicide ideation. Beautifully written and very raw.

The dark side of infatuation

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I persisted but couldn’t get to the end. Life is too short. The women on this journey are shallow, laced with self hate in a dystopian setting. I should have stopped after the description of a dog defecating. This was not for me.

Not finished

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I’m so annoyed I wasted time reading another one of Melissa Broder’s books, she has never written a likeable female character (writing unlikeable women is a beautiful art) but one must think this is just a mirror of Melissa herself as she merely copy/pastes the same ‘main character’ every time, uncaring, self involved, misogynistic, racists (there is never a person of colour in a Melissa Broder book) who is ultimately always given this odd redemption tour, but actually the characters to me at least feel by the time you suffocate on the last page, that they are colder one dimensional sociopaths than you initially observed on page one. A huge trigger warning to any animal lovers too. Particularly dogs.
Also her vernacular and vocabulary is so rudimentary, how is this person still getting book deals?! Eugh. Zero stars.

Melissa Broder hates women

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