A tender coming-of-age novel about a young woman haunted by her sisters death, who starts to believe that her beloved sibling has returned to herin the form of a ghost fish, for fans ofSweetbitterandOur Wives Under the Sea.

Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, shes moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New Yorks Lower East Side. Now shes living the clich, barely making rent as a restaurant hostess and avoiding her roommates, while watching the bright, busy passersby from her bubble of grief. She doesnt need originality; she just needs to be alive.

Then, late one night, she rounds the corner and sees a shape in the aira ghost. And how strange, it looks like a fish. What is it? Alison knows, without hesitation: it is her beloved sister, finally returned to her side. Safe in a pickle jar filled with water, the ghost fish goes wherever Alison does: in an alcove at the restaurant; in a tote bag on the subway; in her room at night as her roommates chatter outside. She knows she has to keep her safe from the world, the way she didnt before. She knows that, together, they will never be lonely again. But as Alisons new life in New York begins to grow, and as she navigates the murky waters of dating, friendship, and desire, she must ask: what if her sister is keeping her away from a life outwardly lived?

With tenderness and heart, stretching from New York, New York to Key West, Florida,Ghost Fishis a meditation on grief, loneliness, and the strange, kaleidoscopic ways we help ourselvesand those we love through it.