My Heart Is a Chainsaw [Paperback]

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

Shirley Jackson meetsFriday the 13thin the rollicking, bloody first novel of The Indian Lake trilogy by the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Only Good IndiansandThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

“Some girls just don’t know how to die…”

Shirley Jackson meetsFriday the 13thinMy Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Only Good IndiansStephen 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 callsMy 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…especiallythe 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 bloodactuallystarts 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 littleló\