This week we’re discussing Elle Nash’s 2018 novel Animals Eat Each Other, in which a nameless narrator enters into a rather fraught three-way relationship with a tattoo artist/Satanist and his girlfriend. We talk about what makes for good/interesting writing about sex, and how a book like this might hit differently at different ages. Plus: another installment of Judge A Book By Its Cover!
For those of you playing along at home, here are the covers from our Judge A Book By Its Cover segment:
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