Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel 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 chilling novel that will give you nightmares. The good kind of course
(BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature Stephen Graham Jones. Some girls just
don't know how to die... Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw
written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones
called a literary master by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and one of our most
talented living writers by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw a homage to
slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre. 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 emerges...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.
