House of Hunger: A Novel

"It’s a cliché, of course, to talk about a job that requires blood, sweat and tears. But in this book, author Alexis Henderson imagines a world in which certain young women are asked to devote literal blood – drained from the arm at needle-point – to their employers to drink. It’s a Gothic horror that blurs the lines between work and love, coercion and choice, freedom and servitude. And though the book’s setting involves a bit of the paranormal, the questions it asks about our relationship to work are all too real: What are you willing to give of yourself? Will you know your limits before it’s too late? Or will you gladly surrender the last and best parts of you to the person who holds your purse strings?"