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 Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in the rollicking, bloody first novel of The Indian Lake trilogy by the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

“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. Crime Horror Murder Supernatural Thriller & Suspense World Literature Scary Paranormal Native American Fiction Native American Folklore Indigenous America
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This book had me hooked.Excellent narration,sympathetic characters you actually feel for and an unexpected ending.

Wow

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My Heart is a Chainsaw is both a unique and very familiar slasher story with the most fun protagonist in a slasher ever. Also the story just slashes at your heart multiple times. And the narration is just unbeliavable good, it's so easy to lose yourself in this audiobook.

Amazing performance for an amazing story

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Argh, this takes so long to get going! Once it does, it’s rushed and anti-climatic. For all the teaching of slasher lore, it delivers almost nothing in terms of suspense or shocks. Instead we’re left with just random carnage and an awful twist. I wouldn’t bother. The scariest part was every time the main character said “right?”. Made my skin crawl!

Poor pacing and anti-climatic

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I love horror, but generally go for supernatural stories, yet the reputation of My Heart Is A Chainsaw preceded it, so I thought I'd give it a try - absolutely the right choice!

The lead character's voice is crystal clear. It's easily to vividly step into her head and see the events through her eyes.

I rarely feel excitement or ick within horror (find them weirdly calming!) but the climatic chapters got me.

Just brilliant! Fantastic reader too. Thanks to everyone involved in this amazing production.

Instant download for the sequel (Don't Fear The Reaper).

Amazing! Brilliant character and plot

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Really enjoyed, even if I felt it was a little confusing in the beginning. A good read

For slasher fans

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