{"product_id":"deliver-me-1","title":"Deliver Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the horror of living within a body. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness, and visceral power of contemporary American fiction.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eMelissa Broder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeath Valley \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut a punishment to her hands and joints, but Dee-Dee's more concerned with what is happening inside her body. After a series of devastating miscarriages, Dee-Dee has found herself pregnant, and she is determined to carry this child to term. Dee-Dee fled the Pentecostal church years ago, but judgment follows her in the form of regular calls from her mother, whose raspy voice urges Dee-Dee to quit living in sin and marry her boyfriend Daddy, an underemployed ex-con with an insect fetish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a child on the way, at long last Dee-Dee can bask in her mother's and boyfriend's newfound parturient attention. She will matter. She will be loved. She will be complete. When her charismatic friend Sloane reappears after a twenty-year absence, feeding her insecurities and awakening suppressed desires, Dee-Dee fears she will go back to living in the shadows. Neither the ultimate indignity of yet another miscarriage nor Sloane's own pregnancy deters her: she must prepare for the baby's arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElle Nash\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eAnimals Eat Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e (Dzanc Books), which was featured in \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and hailed by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e as a \"complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire.\" Upon publication of her novel in the UK, she appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to present the work of under-represented voices with Amnesty International, and to speak about sex, death and feminism in literature. Her work appears in \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAdroit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Creative Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eWitch Craft Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand currently lives in Glasgow, Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elle Nash","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50848688472349,"sku":"9781961884595","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781961884595.gif?v=1768666816","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/deliver-me-1","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}