In a series of connected stories, modeled on literary fiction, Loose Fish takes the reader through an unorthodox odyssey of an ex-military brat seeking ballast, with the loss of a war-hero father she can't remember, and the burden of a hapless mother she wishes she could forget. --In Madrid, she spends a sexy teenage summer with Spanish bullfighters and has her own skirmish with a bull--kept secret from a tyrannical stepfather.--In Morocco, the family's...