Deliver Me

“To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness, and visceral power of contemporary American fiction.” —MELISSA BRODER, author of Milk Fed, The Pisces, and Death Valley

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 con...