num_pages: 405
description: In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her forJade 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 moviesespecially 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.
language: English
title: My Heart Is a Chainsaw
publisher: Gallery / Saga Press