{"product_id":"deliver-me-9781961884595","title":"Deliver Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the horror of living within a body. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMELISSA BRODER, 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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNash, Elle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \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":"Unnamed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676153413906,"sku":"9781961884595","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_865fb9bc-c170-4fe9-ada2-4f3148234be6.jpg?v=1761046474","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/deliver-me-9781961884595","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}