My Heart Is a Chainsaw


Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
33
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14
Release Date
August 2021
Duration
13 hours 3 minutes
Summary
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.
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Anonymous

Intriguing story that weaves classic horror plots into an entertaining tale.

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David W.

Jade is one of my all-time favorite characters, and I now watch slashers!

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Derek H.

This book was written for me. It's the list in sync I've felt since I first read sexdrugscocopuffs. New favorite Narrator Cara Gee!!!! Yes please. More of this person.

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Anonymous

Story was ok, but not what I thought the book was about by reading the preview. This is more of a self journey dealing with trauma and suicide. The ending was ambiguous and I’m still not sure how I feel about it.

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Mia

The good: it\'s written well and there are some genuine emotional moments.\r\nThe bad: 10 slow hours of a brooding teenager hating life only for it to get interesting in the last 2 hours...

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