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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in the rollicking, bloody first novel of The Indian Lake trilogy by the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
“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.
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“A love letter to (and an examination of) both the horror genre and the American West; it left me stunned and applauding.”
— Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award–winning author
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“Gritty and gorgeous.”
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“A masterpiece.”
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“An intense homage to the classic horror films of yore.”
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“At once an homage to the horror genre and a searing indictment of the brutal legacy of Indigenous genocide in America."
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“Hilarious at one turn and outrageously gruesome at the next, it’ll be the perfect book to read after dark.”
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“Horror fans [will] be blown away by this audacious extravaganza.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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An August 2021 LibraryReads Pick
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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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A Boston Globe Best Books of the Year Pick
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About Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is the award–winner and New York Times bestselling author of six story collections and twenty-five novels. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of numerous awards, including the Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, Alex Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Award, the Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction and has been a finalist for many others. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.