{"product_id":"deliver-me-by-elle-nash-29th-june-at-7pm","title":"Deliver Me by Elle Nash 29th June at 7pm","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin us for a very special evening with Elle Nash to celebrate the launch of her brand new novel- Deliver Me. Elle is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eGag Reflex\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAnimals Eat Each Other\u003c\/em\u003e, which was featured in the 2018 June Reading Room of \u003cem\u003eO - The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e as well as her debut short story collection \u003cem\u003eNudes, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich came out with 404 Ink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eHer work appears in \u003cem\u003eGuernica, BOMB, The Nervous Breakdown, Literary Hub, The Fanzine, Volume 1 Brooklyn, New York Tyrant\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of \u003cem\u003eWitch Craft Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and has edited fiction at both \u003cem\u003eHobart Pulp \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Expat Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt a meatpacking facility in Missouri, Dee-Dee and her coworkers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift. The 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDee-Dee fled the Pentecostal church years ago, but judgment follows her in the form of regular calls from her mother, whose raspy voice urges her to quit living in sin and marry her boyfriend, Daddy, an underemployed ex-con with an insect fetish. With a child on the way, at long last Dee-Dee can bask in her mother and boyfriend's newfound attention. She will matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeither another miscarriage nor Sloane's own pregnancy deters her: she must prepare for the baby's arrival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAs always tickets are free but must be booked in advance. You can also\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9780857308610\"\u003e pre-order your copy here\u003c\/a\u003e with a special 10% discount automatically applied at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Mount Florida Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45475946463476,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780857308610_7d8db597-547e-4fb9-b397-aa0e84af651d.jpg?v=1718629755","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/deliver-me-by-elle-nash-29th-june-at-7pm","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}