02159cam a2200337 i 4500 1486598063 TxAuBib 20240806120000.0 231011s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023045381 9781641295901 HRD 27.95 1641295902 HRD 27.95 TxAuBib rda Cranor, Eli, 1988-, author. Broiler / Eli Cranor. New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2024] 322 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone's throw away from the trailer park where they've lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay. When the plant manager, Luke Jackson, fires Edwin to set an example for the rest of the workers-and to show the higher-upsthat he's ready for a major promotion-Edwin is determined to get revenge on Luke and his wife, Mimi, a new mother who stays at home with her six-month-old son. Edwin's impulsive action sets in motion a devastating chain of events that illuminates the deeply entrenched power dynamics between those who revel at the top and those who toil at the bottom. From the nationally bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough and Ozark Dogs comes another edge-of-your-seat noir thriller that exposesthe dark, bloody heart of life on the margins in the American South and the bleak underside of a bygone American Dream"-- Provided by publisher. 20240806. Packing-house workers Fiction. Poultry plants Fiction. Ransom Fiction. Mexican Americans Fiction. Arkansas Fiction. Noir fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Novels. fast