Ink Vine

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sometimes you just pick your poison and pray</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stay the hell out of the swamp</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> - the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. But when exotic dancer Emmy Joiner sneaks under the dark tree-canopy behind her family trailer she meets mysterious tattooed Zara the first girl she dares to kiss.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the small-town South hates a woman who dares to dance instead of plucking chickens for minimum wage and as Emmy's life falls apart her relationship with Zara grows more tangled and bizarre. Zara's offering something beautiful. But while Emmy's slowly strangling its price may be more than she's willing to pay.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shifting between the green-bright cypress cathedral and the dreamland of a dance club Broadbent's unforgettably-voiced debut confronts the brutal realities of poverty in the South with a sapphic tale both sultry and sinister gritty and gothic.</span></p><p></p>