Ink Vine

<p><strong><em>Sometimes you just pick your poison and pray.</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bisexual stripper Emmy has lived her whole life in a small Southern town with a few rules: Listen to your mama; don't kiss girls; and stay the hell out of the swamp. Sick of all three she sneaks under the dark tree-canopy behind her family trailer where she meets Zara-mysterious elusive tattooed Zara the first girl she dares to kiss.</span></p><p><span style=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=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><span>������</span>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>