Book Review: The Pisces

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Title: The Pisces by Melissa Broder

Genre: uh...erotic magic realism?

Trigger warnings: Suicidal ideation, drug abuse, animal harm

The story: Lucy is thirty-eight and her life is falling apart. Her dissertation is stalled, she dumps her boyfriend, then becomes obsessed with him and falls into a low-key suicidal fugue. After running into some

Comments

[ragnarok_08]

That does sound WTF indeed.

[frelling_tralk]

I’m not sure whether to try that one or not, I remember hearing a lot about it at first with critics seeming to really recommend it, but reader reviews seem a lot more mixed