“Fish Tales is a fast, fearless book, told in snatches, and so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands. The fashion, the rollicking orgies, the sex, the coke, the bubbles, the queens, the most head-spinning combination of tenderness and toxicity—it ought to have been the sensation of its time. One can’t help but wonder if the contemporary literary landscape might be a little wilder, a little freer, if this book hadn’t lain dormant the last forty years. Thank heavens for the revival of Fish Tales; thank heavens for the fierce vision of Nettie Jones.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts

“Fish Tales is candid, fast, and alive. Nettie Jones renders everything as its own particular organism—cities, relationships, and of course the body and its grotesque eroticism.” —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

“Fish Tales is wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive. A novel unlike any other, from an author unlike any other: Nettie Jones astounds and shocks and comforts. Fish Tales is a genuine treasure.” —Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal

“Nettie Jones writes about sex, desire, money, and friendship like nobody's business. So much truth, hurt, and humor permeate throughout this slim, enthralling novel, such that many of Jones's observations about the nature of power and desire feel written for today. Fish Tales will certainly dazzle you, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie.” —Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House