{"product_id":"book-1rpg","title":"Indigent","description":"\u003cb\u003eP. Djèlí Clark's \u003ci\u003eRing Shout\u003c\/i\u003e meets Alyssa Cole's \u003ci\u003eWhen No One Is Watching\u003c\/i\u003e in this creeping body horror novel following the tenants of an apartment complex in a gentrifying neighborhood, the parasitic infection they contract, and what they do to survive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeigh 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67872842318128,"sku":"BD1rpg","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1rpg-Square-cover.webp?v=1790615389","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1rpg","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}