Gag Reflex (novel)
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 Cover of the first edition paperback of Gag Reflex by Elle Nash | |
| Author | Elle Nash |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Transgressive fiction Coming of age |
Publication date | April 12, 2022 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 180 |
| ISBN | 978-1-955-90402-5 |
Gag Reflex is a 2022 novella by British-American author Elle Nash influenced by her experience with an eating disorder.[1][2][3][4][5] The novella is said to be a spiritual prequel to Nash's previous novel Animals Eat Each Other in discussing adolescence and psychosexual themes.[1][4] The novella is non-traditionally structured with a format of online posts. With non-internet media, images in the story are written with only their file names.[6]
Nash said that the process of writing the novella was hard but inspired to channel her past traumas into something positive.[7][3] The novella opens with two quotes from Frankenstein analogous to how an eating disorder creates a disassociation between the body, the self and the idea of disliking the body you were created in, as Nash describes.[1] The nu metal song "Blood Pigs" by Otep comes up many times in the novella for its relevance to sexual trauma.[5][1]
