My Heart Is a Chainsaw

#1 Lake Witch Trilogy

Stephen Graham Jones

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Miscellaneous
29 March 2022

Series: Lake Witch Trilogy

"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."

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781982137649
ISBN 10: 1982137649
Series: Lake Witch Trilogy
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of several awards including: the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Reviews for My Heart Is a Chainsaw (#1 Lake Witch Trilogy)

* Horror fans [will] be blown away by this audacious extravaganza. -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * This extraordinary novel is an essential purchase. -Kirkus, Starred Review A homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre. You don't have to be a slasher fan to read My Heart is a Chainsaw, but I guarantee that you will be after you read it. -Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger Brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable, My Heart Is a Chainsaw is a visceral ride from start to finish. A bloody love letter to slasher fans, it's everything I never knew I needed in a horror novel. -Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens Stephen Graham Jones can't miss. My Heart Is A Chainsaw is a painful drama about trauma, mental health, and the heartache of yearning to belong...twisted into a DNA helix with encyclopedic Slasher movie obsession and a frantic, gory whodunnit mystery, with an ending both savage and shocking. Don't say I didn't warn you! -Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and Red Hands An easy contender for Best of the Year. A love letter to (and an examination of) both the horror genre and the American West, it left me stunned and applauding. -Brian Keene, World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rising and The Damned Highway Stephen Graham Jones masterfully navigates the shadowy paths between mystery and horror. An epic entry in the slasher canon. -Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase