Manhunt
"By far the best book I've read this year." --Roxane Gay
#1 Best Book of 2022 (Vulture) - A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) - One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Esquire, Library Journal, Paste, and CrimeReads) - A Top 10 Horror Debuts of 2022 (Booklist) - A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Horror - A Best Book of 2022 (Tor.com) - A Best SFF Book of 2022 (Gizmodo) - A Top 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature (The New York Times Style Magazine). Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival."A modern horror masterpiece." --Carmen Maria Machado Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics--all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons. "A filthy, furious delight."--The New Yorker Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
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Brutal, grotesque, darkly funny, reflection of trans experiences in cis dominated worlds. This book requires several content warnings, but is well worth the discomfort
Everyone was just so desperate. Idk. I can appreciate the diverse viewpoints, that was cool to get those POVs, but I wasn’t vibing with the desperation to constantly be fucking whoever. For no reason whatsoever lol. It could have been a bunch of straight cis people and I would have rated it the same.
Please take trigger warnings seriously! This book has lots of body-horror and gore. Even for a horror fan, this one stuck with me. If you can hack it (pun intended, iykyk), this is a super interesting dive into the nature of transphobia and how trans women are vilified by society. In a world where cis men have been transformed into literal blood-seeking monsters, factions of cis and trans women fight for resources, society, and the nebulous future of humankind.
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