Deliver Me

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At 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.

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 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. 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 another miscarriage nor Sloane's own pregnancy deters her: she must prepare for the baby's arrival.

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To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness, and visceral power of contemporary American fiction. Deliver Me is a barbed liturgy of bugs, babies, meat, the gospel, women lusting women, women lusting men, and the human body. Get saved -- Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed and Death Valley
Deliver Me is pure jaw-dropping horror while also serving up a piercing insight into the control of women's bodies and the expectations placed upon them. Mixing single-minded maternal desire with religion in the deep south, Nash's ending is one you will never forget * Stylist *
A gruesome body horror... I read it in two days flat... The squeamish need not apply - the braver of you should tuck in * Spectator (Books of the Year 2023) *
Audacious, disturbing, and utterly unique, Elle Nash's DELIVER ME is body horror at its most shocking and unforgettable -- Eric LaRocca, Bram Stoker Award Winner and author of Everything the Darkness Eats
Brilliant, fearless, and utterly deranged, Deliver Me is a gift to readers who love a seriously unhinged woman. With the creation of Dee-Dee, Elle Nash spelunks in the depths of human depravity and leaves readers (even me!) gasping. A wild, disturbing, super-smart novel, Deliver Me is unforgettable -- Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger

Author Bio

Elle Nashis the author of the novelAnimals Eat Each Other(Dzanc Books), which was featured inO Magazineand hailed byPublishers Weeklyas 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 inGuernica,Adroit,The Creative Independent,Hazlitt,Literary Hub,Cosmopolitan,New York Tyrantand elsewhere. She is a founding editor ofWitch Craft Magazine. She currently lives in Glasgow, Scotland and will be touring major US cities in October 2023.