{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unnamed Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781961884595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Elle Nash","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51634818547893,"sku":"9781961884595","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_82756115-6818-4aac-b62d-a39dead2cd2e.jpg?v=1756789065","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/deliver-me-9781961884595","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}