The Pisces: A Novel

An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, & sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today. "Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic - there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark & sublime page of it" (Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter).

Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she & Jamie break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix, her Los Angeles-based sister insists Lucy housesit for the summer — her only tasks caring for a beloved diabetic dog and trying to learn to care for herself. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube atop Venice Beach, but Lucy can find no peace from her misery & anxiety.

Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks.

"...the dirtiest, most bizarre, most original work of fiction I’ve read in recent memory... Broder has a talent for distilling graphic sexual thoughts, humour, female neuroses, & the rawest kind of emotion into a sort of delightfully nihilistic, anxiety-driven amuse-bouche..."  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue

Whip-smart, neurotically funny, sexy, & above all, fearless, The Pisces is built on a premise both sirenic & incredibly real — what happens when you think love will save you but are afraid it might also kill you?