Cuckoo [Paperback]

A Best Book of 2024 (NPR) A Locus Award Finalist

TheUSA Todaybestselling novel from Gretchen Felker-Martin, author ofManhunt, where a group of teens must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell.

A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing. Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author ofHorror Movie

Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin.

In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survivedbut at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person.

Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it's too late.

The fate of the world depends on it.

WithCuckoo, Felker-Martin appoints herself the new High Priestess of splatter. Tony Tulathimutte, author of National Book Award finalistRejection

Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
Manhunt
Black Flame

GRETCHEN FELKER-MARTIN is a Massachusetts-based bestselling horror author and film critic. Her debut novel,Manhunt, was named the #1 Best Book of 2022 byVulture, and was one of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 byEsquire,Library Journal, andPaste. Her sophomore novel,Cuckoo, debuted on theUSA Todaybestseller list. You can read her fiction and film criticism on Patreon and inTIME,The Outline,Nylon, and more.

A Best Book of 2024(NPR) A Locus Award Finalist Longlisted for a Reading the West Book Award

Cuckoois, like Felker-Martin's previous novelManhunt, absolutely masterful. It is gory and horrifying and brash. It is a parable slicked with blood and viscera. It is a condemnation of the ways the world triesl#