Gag Reflex (novel)

Gag Reflex is a 2022 novella by British-American author Elle Nash influenced by her experience with an eating disorder.The novella is said to be a spiritual prequel to Nash's previous novel Animals Eat Each Other in discussing adolescence and psychosexual themes. The novella is nontraditionally structured with a format of online posts.

Nash said that the process of writing the novella was hard but inspired to channel her past traumas into something positive. The novella opens with two quotes from Frankenstein analogous to how an eating disorder creates a disassociation between the body, the self and the idea of disliking the body you were created in, as Nash describes. The nu metal song "Blood Pigs" by Otep comes up many times in the novella for its relevance to sexual trauma.