The pisces

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.