{"product_id":"new-animal-ella-baxter-9781760877798","title":"New Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e'Profound, profane and darkly hilarious.' - Bri Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Funny, raw, gutsy and stealthily sweet.' - Emily Maguire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e... most nights I find myself trying to combine with someone else to become this two-headed thing with flailing limbs, chomping teeth, and tangled hair. This new animal. I am medicated by another body. Drunk on warm skin. Dumbly high on the damp friction between them and me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she wants from them, that's it for her; she can't connect further. A terrible thing happened to Daniel last year and it's stuck inside Amelia ever since, making her stuck too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaybe being a cosmetician at her family's mortuary business isn't the best job for a young woman. It's not helping her social life. She loves her job, but she's not great at much else. Especially emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then something happens to her mum and suddenly Amelia's got too many feelings and the only thing that makes any sense to her is running away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes the intervention of her two fathers and some hilariously wrong encounters with other broken people in a struggling Tasmanian BDSM club to help her accept the truth she has been hiding from. And in a final, cataclysmic scene, we learn along with Amelia that you need to feel another person's weight before you can feel your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeadpan, wise and heartbreakingly funny, New Animal is a stunning debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'New Animal is a wild, moving and original debut - and like the best bits of sex and funerals, it's very, very funny.' - Robert Lukins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sex, death, humour, and heart - this novel has it all.' - Laura Elizabeth Woollett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'...deeply uncomfortable, laugh-out-loud funny and devastatingly moving...' - Erin Hortle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ella Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":43175041368307,"sku":"8880002787312","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781760877798.jpg?v=1662069843","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/new-animal-ella-baxter-9781760877798","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}