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First published in 1983 after being championed by Toni Morrison, Nettie Jones’s Fish Tales recounts one woman’s trauma-filled, hedonistic quest for personal freedom amidst a “Disco-Era,” drug-fuelled backdrop — one inspired by Jones’s own lived experiences in 1970s Detroit and New York City. Nigerian-American author and Lit Club founder Hannah Eko joins us to discuss the ways power, pleasure and pain converge in Jones’s transgressive work, which was reissued by Farrar Straus and Giroux in 2025

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Fish Tales by Nettie Jones

Honey is the Knife by Hannah Eko

The Lit Club’s 2026 event calendar

Toni Morrison

Village Well bookstore

Longreads article on Nettie Jones by Michael Gonzalez

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