{"product_id":"new-animal","title":"New Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeadpan, wise and heartbreakingly funny, New Animal is a stunning debut.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ella Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718797988009,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/new_1ee8445d-4d55-4028-8c5a-a459c4680ccf.jpg?v=1667529148","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/new-animal","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}