Carnalis

By Tiffany Morris Wealthy party girl Lauren hungers for human flesh. Her girlfriend Alex, a recently injured dancer, is trapped in Lauren's toxic and deadly spiral. The looming threat of capture may prove to be less dangerous than Lauren herself and the lengths she will go to satiate her needs. Will Alex be next on the menu? “Unmissable. Morris will have you wondering how everyone you know and love would taste with a little rosemary and garlic. Sensuous, alien, and perversely mouth-watering. A skin-crawling delight.” —Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt “Mi'kmaw author Morris writes both horror and award-winning poetry, and her latest centers a woman named Lauren who works in a kitchen. The kind of meat Lauren cooks and what really goes into her frying pan are deeply disturbing. Morris' sentences glitter with vibrancy as readers experience unflinching details of flesh and bone, getting a firsthand glimpse into Lauren's fetishes as the tension amplifies. Lauren's girlfriend, Alex, who is of Mi'kmaw heritage, suffers a mishap at a ballet performance. After this, Lauren's tense family relations give way to a complex dynamic with Alex that isn't always benevolent. A creeping sense of dread encroaches and readers will flip the pages hoping to find out who survives, particularly as Lauren becomes more unhinged, and the body horror ramps up. Beneath all the gore is a deeper commentary on societal pressures around weight loss as well as an exploration of how the state treats people from vulnerable and marginalized backgrounds and what it's like to be queer and to have to hide it from family. This deeply sensual cannibal horror book is perfect for fans of Hailey Piper, Jack Ketchum, and Eric LaRocca.” —Booklist, starred review “Tiffany Morris wields her prose like the keenest of meat cleavers in this tale of cannibalistic decadence. Sumptuously written and armed with unflinching moral clarity, Carnalis is both treat and treatise, a seductive descent into debauchery and

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