{"product_id":"indigent-by-briana-n-cox","title":"Indigent by Briana N. Cox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Eat. They twisted in deeper. Eat. Still so simple. An impulse. Repeated again and again. Eat...\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcid-bath class struggle intermingles with parasitic terror in Briana N. Cox's slippery, slithering, symbiotically suffocating debut.\" - Clay McLeod Chapman, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This damning portrayal of U.S. health care doubles as a potent, unforgettable creepfest.\" - Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLEIGH PIERCE ESTATES is home to a diverse array of tenants: families, immigrants, students, the forgotten elderly. All working poor, and all in danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the tenants of Leigh Pierce are disappearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLive-in handyman Xavier seems to be the only one who notices. Or cares. After a chance encounter with the culprit leaves him infected with something horrifying, Xavier is thrust into a surreal nightmare of starvation and consumption all too familiar to his gentrifying Atlanta neighborhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuccumbing to his infection, Xavier is drawn into the cobbled-together family squatting in Leigh Pierce's basement. People who, through a myriad of doomed roads, fell into the same self-destructive cycle of indigency, harboring dark secrets... and darker appetites. Trapped in a dynamic of codependency and complicity, Xavier and his family- new and old- are forced to confront the cost of survival in a world that has disregarded them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crowne Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44401345953880,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4146\/8760\/files\/9798994032701.jpg?v=1784486473","url":"https:\/\/crownebooks.com\/products\/indigent-by-briana-n-cox","provider":"Crowne Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}