** From the author of Nudes and Animals Eat Each Other comes an unsettling story of motherhood, manipulation and murder **
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.
Product details
Publisher : Verve Books; 1st edition (27 Jun. 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0857308610
ISBN-13 : 978-0857308610
Dimensions : 19.8 x 12.9 x 19.8 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 166,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
994 in Contemporary Horror
1,906 in Horror Thrillers
7,226 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
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