β Scribed by Stephen Graham Jones
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature,New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones.
βSome girls just donβt know how to dieβ¦β
Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw , written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called βa literary masterβ by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and βone of our most talented living writersβ by Tommy Orange.
Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw βa homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.β On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies⦠especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.
Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emergesβ¦a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
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