I prefer to stay plugged in, Jodi. Plugged in makes me feel alive.

Lewis Jones is a party girl on the edge. Bankrolled by her husband Woody and accompanied by her fellow hedonist Kitty Kat, a hustler who knows all the best spots, Lewis bounces between the demimonde of 70s New York and affluent Black Detroit in a fractured haze of lovers, cocaine parties and champagne baths. But her wild pursuit of freedom is upended when she meets the handsome, erudite, cruel Brook - the only man who won't allow her to take control.

Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, Fish Tales is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.

'Candid, fast and alive' RAVEN LEILANI
'Nettie Jones's voice is astonishing. It leaps off the page like a panther' New York Times Book Review
'Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive' BRYAN WASHINGTON