Indigent
A Literary Horror Novel
by Briana N Cox
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Pub Date 20 Mar 2026 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2026
Description
"Eat. They twisted in deeper. Eat. Still so simple. An impulse. Repeated again and again. Eat..."
"Acid-bath class struggle intermingles with parasitic terror in Briana N. Cox's slippery, slithering, symbiotically suffocating debut." - Clay McLeod Chapman, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
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.
A Note From the Publisher
Standard warnings for horror tropes (violence, death, murder) apply.
Other content warnings: medical trauma, graphic violence, ableism, classism, poverty, racism, sexism, use of slurs, disordered body thoughts, self-harm and addiction, allusions to suicide and miscarriage, religious trauma, domestic violence, police violence.
Advance Praise
- “Both a sharp indictment of the US healthcare system and a tightly plotted thriller, INDIGENT will invade 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
- “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
- “Utterly engrossing. Briana N Cox takes what slips through the cracks and brings it into the light. An intricate and searing examination of how the medical system fails those most in need, INDIGENT is devastatingly timely.” - Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal & One of You
- “With INDIGENT, Briana N Cox has crafted a scathing indictment of America’s healthcare system wrapped in a tale that will creep under your skin… Not just because it’s an excellently written tale of horror, but because it reads all too real.” - Markus Redmond, author of Blood Slaves
- “With stunning, visceral prose and memorable characters, Briana N Cox deftly intertwines body horror and class consciousness to explore interconnection in its most terrifying expressions. INDIGENT writhes on the page and lingers wih the reader long after.” - Tiffany Morris, Shirely Jackson Award nominated author of Green Fuse Burning
- “Briana N Cox has written Shivers for the Get Out generation with INDIGENT. A thoughtful, complex look at the intersection of gentrification and the ongoing opioid epidemic, as explored through the lens of a body-horror creature-feature phantasmagoria.” - Preston Fassel, author of Our Lady of the Inferno & Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street
Marketing Plan
Add INDIGENT to your to-read shelf and leave an advance reader review on Goodreads or StoryGraph (links below)! Please consider leaving additional reviews on retailer websites (Amazon, etc.) following publication on March 20, 2026.
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244478232-indigent
- The StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/982452a1-dd4c-4301-b1fe-356c190aa2ac
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798994032701 |
| PRICE | US$14.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 350 |
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