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. 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.Įverything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night.
After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” -Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter “Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces.
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