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Beginning with a story of an ex sex-worker drifting through a rural
town in South America, and ending with a young woman's sinister
wedding night, Nash writes across the complications of working
class women, rendering their desires with visceral prose and
psychologically dissecting the fundamental root that threads her
work: craving and the conflicts within.
Dubbed a 2018 Debut Writer to Watch by Publisher's Weekly Nudes on
Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 and an SPD Best Seller
Through diaristic ellipses, Nash crafts an origin story of
obsessional masochism Drawing on the nostalgia of a nascent digital
age and grappling with an eating disorder, indie cult author Elle
Nash paints a realistic and poignant portrait of a teenager's quest
for self-identification on both sides of the computer screen. Using
Livejournal entries, we meet our protagonist, in her messy
transition into adulthood in the midst of grappling with calorie
counts, boys, and being honest with who she is only online.
Following up her cult fiction debut Animals Eat Each Other, Nash
shows she belongs in the same camp along with exciting feminist
literary disrupters the likes of Melissa Broder and Alissa Nutting.
It's 2005. Lucy shambles through the last weeks of her senior year
of high school, jonesing for a thinner body, desperate to connect
with another human. Who is reflected back at her when she is
sleeping with someone, when she is puking into the toilet bowl? Who
is reflected back when she's alone? Only the internet knows, where
she muses on the concept of her "self" through her Livejournal,
with a cadre of online friends who are definitely NOT pro-anorexic.
Everyone's sick here, but at least they understand.
A young woman with no name embarks on a fraught three-way
relationship with Matt, a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend
Frances, a new mum. She begins to recognise the dark undertow of
obsession and jealousy that her presence has created between Matt
and Frances, and finds herself balancing on a knife's edge between
pain and pleasure, the promise of the future and the crushing
isolation of the present. With stripped-down prose and unflinching
clarity, Nash examines madness in the wreckage of love, and the
loss of self that accompanies it.
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The Conium Review - Vol. 10 (Paperback)
Cassidy McFadzean; Edited by (ghost editors) Elle Nash; Edited by James R. Gapinski
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