Indigent, Briana Cox

LEIGH PIERCE ESTATES is home to a diverse array of tenants: families, immigrants, students, the forgotten elderly. All working poor, and all in danger.

Because the tenants of Leigh Pierce are disappearing.

Live-in handyman Xavier seems to be the only one who notices. Or cares. After a chance encounter with the culprit leaves him infected with something horrifying, Xavier is thrust into a surreal nightmare of starvation and consumption all too familiar to his gentrifying Atlanta neighborhood.

Succumbing to his infection, Xavier is drawn into the cobbled-together family squatting in Leigh Pierce's basement. People who, through a myriad of doomed roads, fell into the same self-destructive cycle of indigency, harboring dark secrets... and darker appetites. Trapped in a dynamic of codependency and complicity, Xavier and his family- new and old- are forced to confront the cost of survival in a world that has disregarded them.

Praise for INDIGENT

"Picture Nick Cutter's The Troop adapted by Bong Joon Ho, where the acid-bath class struggle of Parasite intermingles with parasitic terror in Briana N. Cox's slippery, slithering, symbiotically suffocating debut."

- Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"Both a sharp indictment of the American healthcare system and a tightly plotted thriller, INDIGENT will invade both your mind and body and not let go even after you have read the final page."

- Johanna van Veen, best-selling author of Blood on Her Tongue