| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
280 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers 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 Dee-Dee 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's and boyfriend's newfound parturient attention. She will matter. She will be loved. She will be complete. When her charismatic teenage crush 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Miscarriage -- Fiction.
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Fundamentalism -- Fiction.
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Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Motherhood -- Fiction.
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Poverty -- Fiction.
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Pregnancy -- Fiction.
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Ozark Mountains -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Novels.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Nash, Elle. Deliver me First edition. Los Angeles, CA : The Unnamed Press, [2023] 9781951213855 (DLC) 2023015316 |
| ISBN |
9781951213718 (Hardcover) |
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1951213718 (Hardcover) |
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9781951213855 (ebook) |
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