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Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2024
This program features multicast narration.
From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vicious new novel about a group of teens who 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, author of The Pallbearers Club
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 survived—but 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.
“Tense and frighteningly visceral, Cuckoo is a masterwork of body horror thrumming with high octane viciousness.”—Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
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Critic reviews
"Cuckoo is, like Felker-Martin's previous novel Manhunt, 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 tries to force queer people to become shadows of themselves by abandoning who they are. This book will leave you gasping and yearning, and it will stay on your mind long after you turn the last page."—ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of The Bad Feminist
"Cuckoo is a breathtaking novel of body horror; a heartbreaking, angry, terrifying, unflinching indictment of Christian America's cruelty; and it's a soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."—PAUL TREMBLAY, author of The Pallbearers Club
"Cuckoo is a cry of grief and rage and, at its heart, a tribute to the queers who cup their hands around the guttering flame of hope and refuse to let it die. Brutal, relentless, terrifying, startlingly beautiful—I dare you to put this novel down.”—CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of Her Body and Other Parties
I’d heard such good things about this & I know the author is known for being amazing at what they do but for some reason it just fell short for me and I didn’t get on with it
The premise of it is what drew me in…LGBTQ+ teens being sent away to a camp for being the above & coming back a complete different person like they’d been replaced by something/an entity of themselves. It did start off really good it gave eerie vibes in places & you got the feeling of something dark happening but i kept feeling lost with it! It made me feel like I’d maybe missed a bit a few times but skipping back, I hadn’t.
Perhaps it was too many characters to follow with similar names too, Cheryl and Shelby confused me so many times 😬
I just didn’t enjoy it, I was waiting for it all to come together and blow me away & it just didn’t. Also the narrator for Gabe was absolutely awful, the pauses between each word was stressful. I even put it on 2x speed at one point and he still spaced the words out 🫣
I’d give it 2.5/3⭐️ for the prologue that I did enjoy but it just wasn’t for me unfortunately
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